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Degree(s):

• B.A., Political Science, Creighton University
• Ph.D., Comparative Politics and Public Policy, Indiana University

Department:

Title(s):

• Department Head and Professor

Achievements:

• Faculty Fellow with American Political Science Association’s Institute for Civically Engaged Research at Tufts University, 2019
• Mississippi State University Shackouls Honors College Faculty Mentor Award, 2017
• Outstanding Undergraduate Professor, Mississippi State University's Department of Political Science and Public Administration, 2015

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Books:

• Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States: Institutional Incentives, Myths, and Counterbalancing. London: Routledge Press.
• US-India Strategic Cooperation Into the 21st Century: More Than Words. New York: Routledge Press. With Sumit Ganguly and Andrew Scobell

Links:

• department faculty page

Bio:

Dr. Brian Shoup is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration where he teaches comparative politics and public policy. His primary research interests are identity politics and conflict and state and nation-building. He is the author of Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States: Institutional Incentives, Myths, and Counterbalancing and his research has appeared in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Democratization, Journal of Democracy, The Journal of Labor Research, Perspectives on Politics, and PS: Political Science.