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Dr. Jacqueline Vaughn received her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her primary teaching fields at Northern Arizona University are public administration and public policy, with an emphasis on environmental policy. Prior to joining the faculty at NAU in 1997, Dr. Vaughn taught at Southern Oregon University and at the University of Redlands. Her recently published books include Conflicts in Natural Resources (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007); Environmental Politics: Domestic and Global Dimensions, fifth edition (Belmont,CA: Thomson, 2007); and George W. Bush's Healthy Forests: Reframing the Environmental Debate Boulder (University Press of Colorado, 2005), co-authored with Hanna J. Cortner. Dr. Vaughn's work has appeared in PA Times, Review of Policy Research, and Policy Studies Review.

Dr. Eric E. Otenyo has an MPA from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Miami University, Ohio. He teaches courses in public administration at Northern Arizona University and previously taught at Illinois State University. His scholarship is in numerous peer reviewed journals include the International Journal of Public Administration, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Public Organization Review, Cornell University IAD Occasional Paper Series, and Politics, Groups and the Individual. He is the co-editor of Comparative Public Administration: The Essential Readings (Oxford, UK: Elsevier, 2006).