Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
Gamble Hall Room 265C
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8379
701 777 3540
mark_jendrysik@und.nodak.edu
Office Hours Fall 2010
T and Th: 10-11:30, 1-3
Spring 2011 Courses:
POLS 115 American Government
POLS 318 American Political Thought
Mark Stephen Jendrysik is Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration. He has been a faculty member at the University of North Dakota since 1999. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His B.A. is from Providence College. He is proud to share Chicopee, Massachusetts as his hometown with famed utopian author Edward Bellamy.
Prior to his appointment at UND he held visiting positions at Bucknell University (1996-98) and the University of Mississippi (1998-99). He also held a post-doctoral appointment at the Center for Survey Research of the University of Virginia (1995-96). He likes to say that he was “seeing America one college at a time.”
He is the author of Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries (Lexington, 2002) and Modern Jeremiahs: Visions of Decline in Contemporary America (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). His recent articles include, “The Snake in the Garden: Crime and Punishment in Utopian Thought,” in Topic: The Washington & Jefferson College Review, Vol. 56 (2010): 1-12, and “Back to the Garden: New Visions of Post-Human Futures," forthcoming in Utopian Studies, Vol 22.1 (2011).
Professor Jendrysik’s teaching interests include ancient and modern political thought, utopian political ideas, ethics, public opinion, and American government. He believes, as did Friedrich Nietzsche, that “a teacher has an obligation to make himself accessible to every level of intellect.” In order to reach this lofty goal he claims to “live in his office.” He is committed to the ideal of public education. He agrees with Mark Twain that "public education is democracy."
He is a member of a number of professional societies including the American Political Science Assocation, the Popular Culture Association and the Society for Utopian Studies. He also holds memberships in a number of honorary societies including Pi Sigma Alpha and Beta Gamma Sigma. He is a Renaissance member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Professor Jendrysik firmly believes that soccer is America's sport of the future and looks forward to seeing the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and watching our star spangled soccer boys win the 2022 World Cup in the USA. He is a lifelong Red Sox and Patriots fan and has no time for band-wagoning Johnny-Come-Latelies. |
