Faculty

Kimberly Lanegran

Joan & Abbott Lipsky Professor of Political Science 

B.A., Grinnell College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Florida

Email: klanegra@coe.edu

Kimberly Lanegran teaches courses on comparative politics, international relations, women and politics, and U.S. public policy. Her most recent publications focus on African truth commissions and international human rights trials. She is currently studying the implementation of Iowa's gender balance law in city and county government. She advises Coe's Model United Nations Club.

Rochelle Snyder

Assistant Professor of Political Science

B.A., Westminster College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison

Email: rsnyder@coe.edu

Rochelle Snyder's teaching and research interests are in American politics and research methods. She teaches courses on American political institutions, research methods and U.S. healthcare policy. Her current research focuses on constituent service, partisanship and representational inequalities in the U.S. Congress.

Bruce Nesmith

Professor of Political Science, Emeritus

B.A., North Central College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois 

Bruce Nesmith taught courses on American political institutions, religion and U.S. politics, and political theory. He is locally active as the co-founder of the Corridor Urbanists and writes about cities and other places on his blog Holy Mountain. His co-authored chapter "Triangulation: Position and Leadership in Clinton's Domestic Policy" is in “42: Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton” (eds) Michael Nelson, Barbara A. Perry and Russell L. Riley (2016). He was the faculty adviser to Political Science Club. He is married with two grown children.