Initial contact should be with the Speakers Bureau Office (785) 864-5169, govern@ku.edu, not the individual faculty member.

Thomas Heilke, associate professor, theilke@ku.edu

• Politics and religion
• Why social science and humanities are "sciences"
• Canadian politics
• Why study abroad?

Burdett Loomis, professor, bloomis@ku.edu

• Current Issues in American politics
• Kansas politics and policy making
• What is wrong, and right, with Congress and the state legislature
• Why lobbying and special interests are better for us than you might think
• How internships make the college experience come alive

Philip Schrodt, professor, schrodt@ku.edu

• Current issues in US defense policy
• Current issues in US foreign policy
• The changing role of war in the international system
• Challenges to the US global role in the post-cold war period

Paul David Schumaker, professor, schu@ku.edu

• The electoral college and alternatives to it
• What "justice" means to local officials and how they pursue a just community
• Is liberalism dead? Or staging a comeback?