Carol Sears Botsch, Associate Professor,
Political Science
e-mail:carolb@usca.edu
(Lokai, the wonderful puppy in this picture, passed away in the spring
of 2005 at 7 years of age, a result of kidney failure)
Education
PhD - 1988
Major: Public Administration
Minor: American Government and Political Theory
Master of Public Administration degree - 1975
Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology - 1971
Professional Experience
Associate Professor
Fall 2001 - present
Primary Responsibilities: Teach courses for the political science program,
develop and administer political science
internship program, supervise independent studies and internships, school and
community service, serve as pre-law advisor, scholarly research.
Assistant Professor
Fall 1997 - Summer 2001
Primary Responsibilities: Teach courses for the political science program,
develop and administer political science
internship program, supervise independent studies and internships, school and
community service, scholarly research.
Instructor
Fall 1995 - Summer 1997
Primary Responsibilities: Taught courses for the political science program, developed and administered political science internship program, supervised senior theses and independent studies, school and community service, scholarly research.
Lecturer
Fall 1979 - summer 1995
Primary Responsibilities: Taught courses for the political science program on a part-time basis, average of three each semester.
Research Consultant
1979 - 1994
Primary Responsibilities: Research and writing projects included study of the economic impact of moving off-site Savannah River Site offices on-site; principal author and researcher for African-Americans and the Palmetto State, a text for eighth graders; preparation of a series of technical papers on human services integration in South Carolina for the S.C. State Reorganization Commission; preparation of a grant application for Aiken-Barnwell Mental Health Center.
Courses Taught<br
American National Government
Gender Politics and Political Theory
Gender and the Law
Introduction to Public Administration
Public Personnel Management
Introduction to Public Policy
Public Financial Management
Judicial Politics
Women and Public Policy
Selected Publications
“Mary Gordon Ellis,” forthcoming, 2007. Book chapter.
“Changing Roles for Women in the
Workforce, 1900-1945,” forthcoming, 2007. in ABC-CLIO
World History Encyclopedia.
“Women’s Rights,
1900-1945,” forthcoming, 2007. in ABC-CLIO World History Encyclopedia.
“Jeanes Teachers of SC,”
in SC Encyclopedia. Edited by Walter
Edgar.
“Harriet Frazier
Johnson,” in SC Encyclopedia.
Edited by Walter Edgar.
“Women in South
Carolina,” in SC Encyclopedia.
Edited by Walter Edgar.
"Women in
"Minorities in
"African Americans in
African-Americans and the
"Human Services
Integration: Getting It Together," The
"A History of the
"Improving Service Delivery
With New Management Tools,"
"Planning Fringe Benefits for the Work Force of the Future," in Pay and Benefits: New Ideas for Local Government, edited by John Matzer, Jr. Washington, D.C.: ICMA (1988). (Originally published in Public Administration Quarterly 9 (1985)), with Richard C. Kearney.
I am in the process of preparing
an electronic text on African Americans in