Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Contact Information
Phone: 208.426.2515
Email: justinvaughn@boisestate.edu
Office: ERB 5123
Mail Stop: 1935
Office Hours: Spring 2013
W 2-5 PM
And by appointment
Courses:
- POLS 101 American National Government
- Spring 2013
- POLS 405 American Chief Executive
- POLS 406 Legislative Behavior
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Vaughn’s Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Dr. Justin S. Vaughn is an assistant professor of political science at Boise State University. He has published several studies of presidential politics, including Gendering the Presidency: Gender, Presidential Politics, and Popular Culture (University Press of Kentucky, 2012) and The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency (Texas A&M University Press, forthcoming), as well as articles in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, International Journal of Public Administration, Review of Policy Research, Administration & Society, and White House Studies. His current research projects include examinations of the strategic dimensions of presidential rhetoric and empirical analyses of management theory as applied to the inner workings of the White House. He is also currently completing a book about the rise of presidential policy czars and editing a volume about the relationship between new media and information control in contemporary presidential campaigns. Dr. Vaughn is co-editor of the Presidents & Executive Politics Report, and has previously been a member of the Executive Council of the Presidency Research Section of the American Political Science Association, Executive Politics section chair for the Western Political Science Association, and a fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency. He has been consulted by the mass media as an expert on the American presidency by numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, NPR, Politico, the Christian Science Monitor, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Toledo Blade, the Pacific Northwest Inlander, the BBC, Al Jazeera, Danish Broadcasting, ABC (Australia), Ceska Televize (Czech Television), CNBC-Asia, La Presse (Canada), Nikkei (Japan), Pravda (Slovakia), Swedish National Radio, WKYC-Cleveland, KCBS-San Francisco, WCPN- Cleveland, WBT-Charlotte, and on-air election night analysis of the 2008 presidential election for the Cleveland, OH FOX affiliate. Dr. Vaughn earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at Texas A&M University.