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
Fall 2009 courses:
POLS 115 American Government
POLS 310 Introduction to Political Thought
Spring 2010 courses:
POLS 115 American Government
POLS 318 American Political Thougth
POLS 495 Senior Colloquium
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. Raised in Chicopee, Massachusetts, his B.A. is from Providence College. 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,” forthcoming in Topic: The Washington & Jefferson College Review, Vol. 56, 2009, and “Tom Paine: Utopian?” Utopian Studies, Vol 18.2 (2007): 139-157.
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 is a lifelong Red Sox and Patriots fan and has no time for band-wagoning Johnny-Come-Latelies. |
