Robert E. Botsch, Professor of Political Science
e-mail: bobb@usca.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/Iraq 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.
"A Republic If you can Keep It:" The Principles and the Many Paradoxes of American Government, 2008. An on-line textbook.
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.
Five textbook chapters: three on interest groups in S.C., one on African-Americans in

S.C., and one on human service delivery.
 
 

 

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
Carolina Trustees Professor, 2003
Grew Endowed Chair in American Studies, 2003-

 

 

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,
    Political Science Club
Director of the Social Science and Business Research Lab, which has done dozens of community studies
President of AAUP chapter at USCA, 2002-

 

 

Research Interests:

Creating/editing a "WEB" based encyclopedia on African-Americans and S.C. with Carol Botsch
Interest groups in South Carolina
Political socialization of college students

 

 
 

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