Donna L. Lybecker
Director of the Global Studies Program, Professor of International Relations, Environmental Politics, and Comparative Politics
Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor
Ph.D. Colorado State University, 2003
Donna L. Lybecker joined the Department of Political Science in 2007. Her teaching and research focus on Comparative Politics and International Relations, emphasizing Environmental Politics, Borders, and Latin America. In particular she looks at the shifting role and perceptions of the US-Mexico border, water issues among the Western states and more recently the role language and narratives play in policy development.
Courses Recently Taught:
Introduction to International Relations
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Environmental Politics and Policy
The Politics of Borders
The Politics of Central America
Seminar in Global Politics
Seminar in Philosophy of Social Science
Dr. Lybecker has published in academic journals such as Policy Studies Journal, Review of Policy Research, Environmental Politics, and Politics & Policy, and co-authored two books, Great Debates in Environmental History with B. Black (2009), and Cases in International Relations: Pathways to Conflict and Cooperation with G. Hastedt and V. Shannon (2014). She was named the Distinguished Teacher at ISU in 2013 and received the Outstanding Service Award in 2017.
Outside of ISU, Dr. Lybecker is a member of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) National Advisory Committee, and an Associate Editor for the Social Science Journal and an Editorial Board Member for the International Journal for Sustainable Society. In addition, she is the Chair of the Selection Committee for The Bert & Phyllis Lamb Prize in Political Science.
Select Publications (* denotes graduate student co-author)
- Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, and Jessica M. Sargent. 2022. “Agreement and Trust: In Narratives or Narrators?” Chapter 4 in Narratives and the Policy Process: Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework. Edited by Michael D. Jones, Elizabeth Shanahan, and Mark K. McBeth. Bozeman, Montana State University. Pp. 90-112. scholarworks.montana.edu
- Mark K. McBeth, Donna L. Lybecker, and Jessica M. Sargent*. “Narrative Empathy: A Narrative Policy Framework Stud of Working-Class Climate change Narratives and Narrators,” World Affairs (forthcoming Fall 2022). Available online first (July 28, 2022) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00438200221107018
- Donna L. Lybecker. 2020. “Old West, New West, and the Next West,” Chapter 1 in The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands, Ericka Wolters and Brent Steel, eds. University of Oregon Press. 3-15.
- Wolters, Erika Allen, Donna L. Lybecker, Frances Fahy, and Monica L. Hubbard. 2019. “Willingness to support environmental actions and policies: A comparative study,” Social Science Journal. (Available online 31 May 2019:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2019.05.013
- Li Huang, Felix Hiefent Liao, Kathleen A. Lohse, Danielle M. Larson, Michail Fragkias, Donna L. Lybecker, Colden V. Baxter. 2019. “Land conservation can mitigate freshwater ecosystem services degradation due to climate change in a semiarid catchment: The case of the Portneuf River catchment, Idaho, USA,” Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 651 (Part 2): 1796-1809.
- Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, Adam Brewer*, and Carine De Sy*. “The Social Construction of a Border: The US-Canada Border.” Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4: 529-547.
- Mark K. McBeth and Donna L. Lybecker. 2018. “The Narrative Policy Framework, Agendas, and Sanctuary Cities: The Construction of a Public Problem.” Policy Studies Journal (Symposium: Advances in the Narrative Policy Framework), Vol. 46(4): 868-893.
- Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, and James W. Stoutenborough. “Do We Understand What the Public Hears? Stakeholders’ Preferred Communication Choices for Discussing River Issues with the Public,” Review of Policy Research, Vol. 33, No. 4: 376-392.
- Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, Maria A. Husmann*, and Nicholas Pelikan*. “Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the US-Mexico Border on YouTube,” Policy and Internet, Vol. 7, No. 4: 497-525.
Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, and Elizabeth Kusko*. 2013. “Trash or treasure: recycling narratives and reducing political polarization,” Environmental Politics. March 2013: Vol. 22, No. 2: 312-332
Interdisciplinary Faculty
Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Professor - African History and Culture
Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts, Office 344
Education
Ph.D. Dalhousie University
Courses Recently Taught:
GLBL 2202 The World Today: Introduction to Global Issues
HIST 1102 World History II
HIST 2255 African History and Culture
HIST 4455/5555 Topics in African History and Culture
HIST 4478/4458 History of Empires
Research Interests
African intellectual history, African social and political history, African philosophy, culture and development, democratization, social movements and comparative politics
Books
Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans: Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947 – Present (Leuven University Press, 2024).
West African Masking Tradition and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, Symbols, and Transnationalism. NY: Rochester University Press, 2020.
United States and African Relations: 1400 to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.
Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations, coedited with Toyin Falola. Indiana University Press, October 2017.
The Igbo in an Age of Globalization: Reflections on Culture, Language, and Social Reordering, coedited with Chima J. Korieh. Glassboro, NJ: Goldline and Jacobs, 2016.
The History of Somalia. Westport: ABC-CLIO, Press, 2013.
Africa and the Wider World, coedited with Hakeem Ibikunle TIjani and Tiffany Fawn Jones. Boston: Pearson/Macmillan, 2010.
African History, coedited with Chima J. Korieh, Iowa: University Readers, Inc., 2010.
War and Peace in Africa: History, Nationalism, and the State, coedited with Toyin Falola. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.
Missions, States, and Colonial European Expansion in Africa, coedited with Chima J. Korieh. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Culture and Customs of North Africa: Morocco. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005
African Cultural Values and Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1966. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Prophets, Soothsayers, and the Nigerian Political Kingdom: A Study of the Prophetic Voices in the 2023 Presidential Elections,” Journal of Religion, Culture, and Democracy -JRCD (Fall 2025): https://doi.org/10.54669/001c.143727.
“The Conflation of Race and Propaganda in the Mobilization of Africans for World War II,” Journal of Asian and African Studies -JAAS (2021): 1-15.
“Nationalism, Decolonization, and Exilic Diplomacy: A Study of Kabaka Mutesa II of Uganda and Sultan Mohammed (Ibn Youssef) V of Morocco, 1940s-1963,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History – JCCH (Spring 2021): 1-27.
"Igbo-Ukwu." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press. Article published in March 2019. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.585.
"Onitsha Market Literature: Narrating Identity and Survival in a Colonial African City." In Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education, edited by Brian Atterberry et al. 31-46. New York: Routledge, 2017.
"Introduction." Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 7-16.
"Becoming African: Igbo Slaves and Social Reordering in Nineteenth-Century Niger Delta." In Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 99-122.
"The Making of Igbo Ethnicity in the Nigerian Setting: Colonialism, Identity, and the Politics of Difference.". Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 265-284.
“The Ahiara Declaration and the Faith of Biafra in a Postcolonial/Bi-Polar World, 1967-1970.” In Toyin Falola and Ogechukwu Ezekwem (eds.), Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War (London: James Curry, 2016), 62-80.
“Interrogating Discursive Constructions of African Political History: From the Precolonial to the Postcolonial,” in Kenneth Omeje (ed.), The Crisis of Postcoloniality in Africa (Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2015), 29-44.
"Eastern Nigeria and the Rise of a New Class of Ogaranyas (Wealthy Men) in the Late Nineteenth-century: A Biography of Chief Igwebe Odum of Arondizuogu (c.1860-1940)." Journal of African Economic History 36 (February 2012): 27-52.
"Neoliberalism in Microcosm: A Study of Precolonial Igbo of Eastern Nigeria." MBARI: The International Journal of Igbo Studies 1, no.1 (2008): 45-68.
"Civil Society and Igbo Traditional Politics: A Historical Survey of Age Grades, Secret Societies, Social Clubs, Women's Organizations, and Town Unions since 1900." International Journal of African Studies 6, no. 2 (2008): 15-28.
"Civil Society in the Islamic Kingdom of Morocco." Journal of International Review of Politics and Development 5, no.2 (2007): 37-53.
"Don C. Ohadike: The Man, His Intellectual Legacy and African Historiography." Journal of Dialectical Antropology 10, no. 4. (August 2007): 32-50.
"Deadly Ethnic Violence and the Imperiative of Federalism an Power-sharing: Could a Consociation Hold in Rwanda?" Journal of Commonwealth Comparative Politics 43, no. 1 (March 2005): 82-101.
Awards
Named an ISU Outstanding Researcher, 2017.
Library Residency Fellowship, Indiana University Bloomington, 2009.
Victor A. Olurunsola Endowed Research Award for Young Scholars, 2007.
Eleanor Young Love Faculty Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 2006.
NEH’s Schomburg Center Residence Fellowship, 2006-7.
West African Research Council Grant, 2001.
Government and Opposition Essay Prize, 2001.
Courses
HIST 1120 Global History Since 1500
HIST 2255 African History and Culture
HIST 4491 Seminar
IS 3300 Travel and Study Abroad
IS 3350 International Symposium
IS 4493 Senior Thesis
Dr. King Yik
Assistant Professor
King Yik, King Yik received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, specializing in international business. Despite his business education training, he has chosen to focus on liberal arts teaching. He has taught international economics and international management to both undergraduate and graduate students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Michigan, and Idaho State University. He is a recipient of multiple teaching awards. His current research interest is on the role of international organizations in economic development.
Courses Recently Taught:
GLBL 2202 The World Today: Introduction to Global Issues
GLBL 2203 International Organizations Today: Conflicts and Cooperation
GLBL 2209 Cultures of East Asia
GLBL 3400 Simulation of Global Affairs
GLBL 4420 Global Health and Policy
José Eduardo Villalobos Graillet
Assistant Professor - Spanish Peninsular Literatures and Cultures
Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, Office 113
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 2022
Courses Recently Taught:
SPAN 1101 Elementary Spanish I
SPAN 1102 Elementary Spanish II
SPAN 3300 Intensive Conversation
SPAN 5545 Critical Theory
SPAN 6675 Topics in Culture and Literature
SPAN 6680 Independent Study in Spanish
SPAN 6690 Spanish Graduate Seminar
Katrina Running
Professor - Sociology
Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts, Office 362
Ph.D., University of Arizona, AZ, 2013
M.A., University of Arizona, AZ, 2009 - Sociology
M.A., University of Arizona, AZ, 2007 - Political Science
Courses Recently Taught:
SOC 1101 Introduction to Sociology
SOC 3309 Social Statistics
SOWK 3308 Sociological Methods and Social Work Research
Research Interests
Climate, Justice, and Inequality; Social and Environmental Sustainability; Social Research Methods; Gender
Select Publications
*indicates student coauthor
Please email me for electronic copies of any of these papers.
Du Bray, Margaret V., Morey Burnham, and Katrina Running. 2023. “Farmer Lifeways and the Lived Experience of Adaptation to Water Policy Change in Idaho’s Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Region.” Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 44(2): 999-109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12296
Hawes, Jason K., Morey Burnham, Margaret V. du Bray, Vicken Hillis, Zhao Ma, and Katrina Running. 2022. “Social Vulnerability to Irrigation Water Loss in the Eastern Snake Plain of Idaho: Assessing the Effects of Water Policy Change on Farmers.” Environmental Management, Online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-021-01586-4
Running, Katrina. 2022. “Cooperative Water Policy Change for Idaho’s Groundwater Farmers. California Groundwater Program.” Environmental Defense Fund. IWA Publishing.
Running, Katrina, Morey Burnham, Chloe Wardropper, Zhao Ma, *Jason Hawes, and Margaret V. du Bray. 2019. “Farmer Adaptation to Reduced Groundwater Availability.” Environmental Research Letters. Available online now at: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab4ccc
Cornell, Joseph, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, Katrina Running, and Antonio J. Castro. 2019. “Examining Concern about Climate Change and Local Environmental Changes from an Ecosystem Service Perspective in the Western U.S.” Environmental Science and Policy 101: 221-231.
Running, Katrina, Morey Burnham, and Margaret V. du Bray. 2019. “Fairness in Common-Pool Resource Access: Farmer Responses to New Agricultural Water Use Restrictions in Idaho.” Environmental Sociology 5(4): 405-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2019.1643548
*Burke, Jordan, and Katrina Running. 2019. “Role Identities and Pro-environmental Behavior among Farmers.” Human Ecology Review 25(1): 3-22. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26964337?seq=1
Eaton, Weston, Morey Burnham, Theresa Selfa, Katrina Running, and Clare Hinrichs. 2019. “Symbolic Meanings, Landowner Support, and Dedicated Bioenergy Crops in the Rural Northeastern United States.” Energy Research & Social Science 52: 247-257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.02.005
du Bray, Margaret V., Morey Burnham, Katrina Running, and Vicken Hillis. 2018. “Adaptive Groundwater Governance and the Challenges of Policy Implementation in Idaho’s Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer Region.” Water Alternatives 11(3): 533-551. http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/tp1-2/1903-vol11
Quintas-Soriano, Cristina, Antonio Castro, Colden Baxter, Katrina Running, *Dainee Gibson, and *Jenna Narducci. 2018. “Social-Ecological Systems Influence Ecosystem Service Perception: A Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society Analysis.” Ecology & Society 23(3):3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10226-230303
Castro, Antonio J., Cristina Quintas-Soriano, Jodi Brandt, Carla L. Atkinson, Colden V. Baxter, Morey Burnham, Benis N. Egoh, Marina García-Llorente, Jason P. Julian, Berta Martín-López, Felix Haifeng Liao, Katrina Running, Caryn C. Vaughn, and Albert V. Norström. 2018. “Applying Place-Based Social-Ecological Research to Address Water Scarcity: Insights for Future Research.” Sustainability 10(5): 1516. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10051516
Running, Katrina, *Jordan Burke, and *Kathleen Shipley. 2017. “Perceptions of Environmental Change and Climate Concern among Idaho’s Farmers.” Society & Natural Resources 30(6): 659-673. [lead article] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08941920.2016.1239151?journalCode=usnr20(most recent impact factor, 1.758, 5-year impact factor, 1.777)
McBeth, Mark, Donna Lybecker, James Stoutenborough, *Sarah Davis, and Katrina Running. 2016. “Content Matters: Stakeholder Assessment of River Stories or River Science.” Public Policy and Administration. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0952076716671034?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article
Schrank, Zachary, and Katrina Running. 2016. “Individualist and Collectivist Consumer Motivations in Local Organic Food Markets.” Journal of Consumer Culture. http://joc.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/07/08/1469540516659127.full.pdf?ijkey=haI70qKuiGzABPn&keytype=finite(most recent impact factor, 2.816)
Mayer, Brian, Katrina Running and Kelly Bergstrand. 2015. “Compensation and Community Corrosion: Perceived Inequalities, Social Comparisons, and Competition Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.” Sociological Forum 30(2):369-390.doi:10.1111/socf.12167(5-year impact factor, 1.301)
Running, Katrina. 2015. “Towards Climate Justice: How Do the Most Vulnerable Weigh Environment-Economy Tradeoffs?” Social Science Research 50:217-228.doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.11.018(most recent impact factor, 1.295; 5-year impact factor, 1.912)
Grant, Don, Katrina Running and Kelly Bergstrand. 2014. “A Sustainable ‘Building Block’? The Paradoxical Effects of Thermal Efficiency on U.S. Power Plants’ CO2 Emissions.” Energy Policy 75(December):398-402.doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2014.10.007(most recent impact factor, 4.844; 5-year impact factor, 5.153)
Grant, Don, Kelly Bergstrand and Katrina Running. 2014. “Effectiveness of US State Policies in Reducing CO2 Emissions from Power Plants.” Nature Climate Change 4: 977-982. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2385 (most recent impact factor, 17.184, 5-year impact factor, 19.257)
Mayer, Brian, Kelly Bergstrand and Katrina Running. 2014. “Science as Comfort: The Strategic Use of Science in Post-Disaster Settings.” In The Routledge Handbook of Science, Technology, and Society, edited by Kelly Moore and Daniel Lee Kleinman. New York: Routledge.
Running, Katrina. 2013. “World Citizenship and Concern for Global Warming: Building the Case for a Strong International Civil Society.” Social Forces 92(1):377-399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sf/sot077(most recent impact factor, 1.303; 5-year impact factor 2.236)
Running, Katrina and Louise Marie Roth. 2013. “To Wed or to Work? Assessing Work and Marriage as Routes Out of Poverty.” Journal of Poverty 17(2):177-197.
Running, Katrina. 2012. “Examining Environmental Concern in Developed, Transitioning and Developing Countries.” World Values Research 5(1):1-27.