About Us

Political Science Program Faculty

Scott Frisch is Professor & Chair of the Department of Political Science.  A native of New Jersey Scott received his B.A. from Lafayette College, a Masters in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Political Science from the Claremont Graduate School.  Scott served as a Presidential Management Intern in the Department of Treasury and as a Legislative Assistant in the Office of Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey.  He joined the faculty at CSUCI in 2003 after several years teaching at California State University, Bakersfield, and at East Carolina University.  Scott's primary research interests are Congress, and the budgetary process. He is coauthor (with Sean Kelly) of Committee Assignment Politics in the U.S. House of Representatives  and Jimmy Carter and the Water Wars  (forthcoming).  His book The Politics of Pork was published by Garland Press in 1998. scott.frisch@csuci.edu
Andrea Grove is Associate Professor of Political Science.  Andrea received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Georgia in 1992, an M.A. in International Relations and Strategic Studies from Lancaster University (in the United Kingdom, where she was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar) in 1993, and her Ph.D. in Political Science from The Ohio State University in 1999.She began her professional career as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont in 1999-2000. She joined the faculty at Westminster College near Pittsburgh in the Fall of 2000.  She joined the CSUCI faculty in 2006.  Her research interests include political leadership in foreign policy and conflict resolution, and she often conducts field work in Northern Ireland and South Africa. Her work has been published in several professional journals, including International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, Political Psychology, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and International Politics. Her book Political Leadership in Foreign Policy: Manipulating Support Across Borders, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2007. andrea.grove@csuci.edu
Sean Q Kelly is Associate Professor of Political Science.  Sean is a native of Seattle, Washington.  He received his B.A. from Seattle University, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Colorado.  Sean is a former American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow (1993-1994), during which he worked for the Senate Democratic Leadership.  He joined the political science faculty  at CSUCI after teaching at Niagara University, and before that at East Carolina University.  Sean's primary research interests are American political institutions, political parties and leadership, and public policy.  He is coauthor (with Scott Frisch) of Committee Assignment Politics in the U.S. House of Representatives and Jimmy Carter and the Water Wars  (forthcoming) and authored or coauthored articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes.