Resume

• 2016

  West Texas A&M University

  Canyon

  Texas

  Teaching: American Government

  Texas Government

  American Foreign Policy

  U.S. National Security

  Comparative Politics and Middle Eastern Politics. \nResearch: Political assassinations

  political violence & terrorism

  Assistant Professor of Political Science

  West Texas A&M University

  Instructor of record for U.S. Government

  Introduction to Political Science

  International Relations and Middle Eastern Politics.

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  Florence

  South Carolina Area

  Francis Marion University

  Member

  Midwest Political Science Association

  Member

  Women in International Security

  Western Political Science Association

  American Political Science Association

• 2010

  Ph.D.

  Ph.D. - Comparative Politics and International Relations

  Comparative Politics/International Relations

• 2001

  Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics

  Global Politics

  Foreign Policy

  University of Texas at Dallas

  Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics

• 1999

  Special Health Resources of East Texas

  Special Health Resources of East Texas

  Master of Public Administration (MPA)

  Public Administration

  University of Texas at Tyler

• 1997

  Bachelor's degree

  Political Science and Government

  University of Texas at Tyler

  State and Local Government

  American Government

  American Foreign Policy

  Global Politics

  Pearson

  Pearson Learning Makes Us Webinar Participant: Course Curriculum

• Grant Writing

  International Relations

  Comparative Politics

  Editing

  Higher Education

  International Law

  Foreign Policy

  Qualitative Research

  Teaching

  Political Science

  Political Assassinations

  History

  Research

  Human Rights

  Terrorism

  Political Violence

  Nonprofits

  International Security

  \"The Soleimani Assassination: What We're Missing\"

  \"The Soleimani Assassination: What We're Missing\"

  A short research note examining the political institutional consequences after a terrorist assassination

  delineated by target type.

  Terrorist Assassinations and Target Selection

  Terrorist Assassination and Institutional Change in Repressive Regimes

  Terrorist assassinations and societal unrest in Africa: a research brief

  Weathering the Storm: Revisiting the Hariri Resignation

  Popular literature is inundated with studies of the assassinations of leaders such as John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln and most empirical studies of assassinations focus on the murders of heads of state

  such as presidents and prime ministers. Missing from the literature is an in-depth and systematic examination of assassination types and the immediate

  intermediate and long-term effects of these events on the states that experience these events. My dissertation contributes to the existing literature by examining political institutional changes in the aftermath of assassination events. The central purpose is to determine if assassinations lead to immediate and/or long-term political instability

  using event history modeling to test for length of time from an assassination event to an institutional change. By broadening the scope of research into political assassinations and examining the repercussions of these events

  scholars will improve insight and overall understanding of political violence.

  Laura N.

  University of Texas at Dallas

  Francis Marion University