Kimberly Kelly is Professor of Sociology and Director of Gender Studies at Mississippi State University. She studies the intersections of religion and reproductive politics, focusing upon abortion activism in the United States. Her previous work addressed the crisis pregnancy center movement, ‘post abortion syndrome,’ and the diffusion of religious ideology into public policy and appears in…

Dr. Julius A. Nukpezah is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration. He was selected as the Sanderson Dean’s Eminent Scholar in the Social and Behavioral Sciences for the College of Arts and Sciences at Mississippi State University in 2020, and he was named “the Outstanding Graduate Professor” in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration in 2018…

Michael Ross Potter is an Associate Professor at Mississippi State University and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Public Integrity. Mike is a Co-PI on $2.6 million Department of the Army grant dealing with open-source intelligence collection. His research interests focus on terrorist finance, ethics, and regulatory policy. Before joining MSU, he served as graduate director for the Master's of…

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…