Robert E. Botsch, Professor of Political Science
e-mail: bobb@aiken.sc.edu
Education:
BS in Applied Mathematics and Physics, N.C. State U.,
1968
MA and PhD in Political Science, U.N.C. Chapel Hill,
1975 and 1977
Teaching Experience:
Instructor, U.N.C. Chapel Hill, 1976-77
Assistant Professor, Illinois State University, 1977-78
Assistant, Associate, and Professor, USC Aiken, 1978-present
Teaching Areas:
American politics and institutions, southern politics,
South Carolina politics, research methods, public opinion, the Vietnam
War
Selected Scholarship:
We Shall Not Overcome, University of North Carolina
Press, 1980.
Organizing the Breathless, University of Kentucky
Press, 1993.
African-Americans and the Palmetto State, co-author,
a social studies text for the S.C.
Department of Education, 1994.
Government's Role in the Future of S.C., monograph
prepared for the S.C. Assembly
on the Future, co-chaired by the Governor and Lt. Governor of S.C., 1988.
Four textbook chapters: two on interest groups in S.C.,
one on African-Americans in
S.C., and one on human service delivery.
Over $130,000 in small grants, most of which went to
students and equipment.
Honors and Awards:
USCA Teaching Excellence Award, 1987-8 and 1995-6
USC System Professor of the Year, 1987-8
CASE S.C. Professor of the Year and National Gold Medal
Winner, 1987-8
USC Aiken Scholarly Activity Award, 1992-3
USC Aiken Service Award, 1989-90
Selected Service Activities:
Faculty Assembly Parliamentarian for several terms
Chair of Welfare Committee and co-author of Faculty Salary
Plan
USCA Golf Coach, 1982-3
Advisor: Social and Behavioral Science Club, College
Democrats, and College Republicans
Steering Committee for the Social Science Student Research
Lab
Research Interests:
Creating a "WEB" based encyclopedia on African-Americans
and S.C. with Carol Botsch
