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Degree(s):

• B.A., Whitworth University, 2007
• Ph.D. Texas A&M University, Political Science, 2013

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Title(s):

• Associate Professor

Achievements:

• Outstanding Undergraduate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University, 2022
• Teaching Award in Social & Behavioral Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, Mississippi State University, 2023

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• faculty directory page

Bio:

Dr. Benjamin Tkach is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, where he teaches international relations.  He has collaborated with the National Defense University, Joint Special Operations University, and U.S. Department of Energy. His primary research agenda investigates government decentralization, security privatization, and non-state actors' involvement in conflict processes. He adopts a broad theoretical conceptualization of government decentralization that encompasses governance at multiple levels (national and international) and conceptualizes decentralization as shifts from public to private provision of security.