Dr. Kimberly Shankman

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Position: Provost and Dean of the College, 小草影院

Department: Political Science

Office: Ferrell Academic Center 418

Phone: 913.360.7413

Kimberly Shankman received her PhD in Political Science from Northern Illinois University. Subsequently she taught in the Politics and Government Department at Ripon College from 1985-2001, when she left to take her current position at 小草影院.

Her research interests are American political thought and constitutional law. She is the author of Compromise and the Constitution: The Political Thought of Henry Clay. Additionally, she has published articles relating to the privileges or immunities clause of the 14th amendment and other aspects of constitutional law. She spoke recently on 鈥淭ruth and Democracy鈥 at the University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, and on 鈥淗uman Capital in Caritas in Veritate鈥 at Columbia University in New York.