Dr. Brendan Toner
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
EDUCATION HISTORY
- BA-West Chester University of Pennsylvania
- MA-Virginia Polytechnic Institue and State University
- PHD-Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Dr. Toner has been with Tech since 2013. His specialization is American government, public administration, and public law. He is also in charge of Tech’s growing Pre-Law Program. He currently serves on the Faculty Senate. He has served on Tech’s Institutional Scholarship Appeals Committee, and on the department’s scholarship and assessment committees. Outside the university, he served as Public Administration Chair for the Arkansas Political Science Association from 2016-2017.
“The Limits of Morality: Policy Learning and the Diffusion of Eugenic Sterilization
Policies Across the United States” with Joshua L. Mitchell scheduled to be published
by Midsouth Political Review in 2019
“Exploring the Foundations of US State-Level Anti-Sharia Initiatives” with Joshua
L. Mitchell, Politics and Religion 9:4 (December 2016): 720-743
“An Examination of Judicial Civic Education and Community Outreach Efforts” in Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Michael T. Rogers and Donald M. Gooch (New York and London: Lexington Books,
2015), 189-213
Recently Taught Courses
- HIST 4183 - AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY
- POLS 2003 - AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
- POLS 3053 - INTRO TO PUBLIC ADMIN
- POLS 4033 - PRINCIPLES OF LEGAL STUDY
- POLS 4183 - AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY
- POLS 4973 - INTERNSHIP
- POLS 4993 - SP: LATIN AMERICAN IMMIGRATION
- POLS 4993 - SPEC PROB/POLSC: SPORTS & POLS
