Dr. Brendan Toner
Associate Professor
History and Political Science
Witherspoon Building
407 West Q Street
Russellville, AR 72801
Phone: (479) 968-0449
E-mail: btoner@atu.edu
Education
BA - West Chester U of Pennsylvania
MA - Virginia Polytechnic I S Univ
PHD - Southern Illinois U Carbondale
Recently Taught Courses
POLS 2003 - AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
POLS 3043 - JUDICIAL POLITICS
POLS 3123 - AM POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
POLS 4033 - PRINCIPLES OF LEGAL STUDY
POLS 4983 - SEM: LSAT PREP
POLS 4983 - SEM: SPORTS AND POLITICS
POLS 4991 - SP: LAW SCHOOL PREPARATION
POLS 4993 - SP: HONORS LEGAL STUDIES
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
