Dr. Adam Hoffman
 Dr.
Adam Hoffman, Director of PACE, is
assistant professor in the Political Science Department. His
teaching interests include American politics, campaigns and
elections, race and politics, public opinion, research
methodology, and state and local
government. His dissertation, “The Impact of Campaign
Contributions on State Legislators,” looks at the role that
money plays in affecting legislative outputs at the state level.
He is co-author, with James G. Gimpel and Karen M. Kaufmann of
the article, “A Promise Fulfilled? Open Primaries and
Representation,” which was published in the Journal of Politics
(May 2003). At the University of Maryland, he coordinated the
Capitol Hill Internship Program. He has worked in the Maryland
and New York state legislatures and in Washington, D.C as a
policy analyst for both a private sector policy institute and a
large nonprofit organization.
He received a B.A. degree in
political science and history
from SUNY Buffalo (1988), a M.A.
degree in political science from
the University of New Mexico
(1993), a J.D. from Albany Law
School (1992) and Ph.D. in
political science from the
University of Maryland, College
Park (2005)
Leah M.
Reynolds
 Leah
M. Reynolds,
Managing Director, has served in
leadership positions of
non-profit organizations for the
past 18 years. She holds a
Masters Degree in Professional
Leadership, with a focus on
non-profits and foundations from
Carlow University.
She also has a Legal Studies
degree from the University of
Pittsburgh.
Her vast
experience in
all areas of fundraising and
leadership has been
shared with students as
she has taught classes for the
Community College of Allegheny
County's Nonprofit Professional Development
Academy and continues to mentor
people into this exciting
field.
Her mission is to continue to
teach political engagement and
promote civil discourse through
this Institute and help grow
PACE in line with the
credibility and high profile of
Salisbury University.
Elaina Iosue
 Elaina Iosue, Staff
Assistant, is a junior at
Salisbury University and a
Presidential Citizen Scholar.
She is double majoring in
Journalism and Political Science
and hopes to become involved in
the public relations field
following graduation. Her
involvement on campus includes
being a member of the Salisbury
Women’s tennis team, the
treasurer of College Republicans
and a member of the Student
Athletic Mentor Program. She is
also a member of the
Communication Honors Society
(LPE).
Mallory Lengel
 Mallory
Lengel, Communications
Practicum Student, is a senior
at Salisbury University.
She is majoring in Public
Relations/Journalism and covers
a variety of events for PACE.
Lengel has been riding horses
since the age of five and
currently has two horses.
After graduation, she hopes to
work for Pax River in St. Mary's
in Public Relations.
Top
Resident
Scholars
Dr. Michael O'Loughlin
Michael O'Loughlin is a
professor of Political Science
at Salisbury University.
He has served as
president of the Faculty Senate
as well as Chair of the
Political Science Department. He
received a B.A. in political
science from the University of
Pittsburgh (1973) and his Ph.D.
in political science from The
Ohio State University (1984).
His teaching fields are courses
in American politics and
government, public policy
analysis, and political theory.
Dr. O’Loughlin’s
research at PACE focuses on
student voting.
Beginning in 2001, Dr.
O’Loughlin has examined low
turnout of student voting, some
of the reasons for it and has
analyzed state laws as they
affect the right of students to
vote. In the most recent edition
of “Democracy and Student
Voting,’ Dr. O’Loughlin along
with Class of 2011 PACE
Presidential Citizen Scholar
Chase Gordon, sharpen their
focus theoretically and examine
the normative policy question:
Where should college students
vote and, what is the likely
voter eligibility rules that
will maximize college student
voting?
Building on both the
previous studies, they lay out a
view of participatory democracy
that entails an argument for the
maximization of college student
voting as citizens of their
college or university towns.
E-Mail:
mgoloughlin@salisbury.edu
"Democracy
and Student Voting" (4th Ed.,
February 2012)
Dr. Mark de Socio
Dr. Mark de Socio
is an Assistant Professor of
Geography and Geosciences at
Salisbury University. He studies
economic and political forces
that shape, and are shaped by,
the physical and social
landscapes of urban and rural
areas. His research focuses on
networks of business and social
leaders who actively shape urban
and rural landscapes through
economic activities,
policy-making, or both. Current
research projects include an
exploration of business and
social networks shaping the
electoral geographies of
state-level officeholders in the
United States; the rise of
universities and hospitals as
engines of local and regional
economic development; and the
geopolitics of the federal J-1
Summer Work Travel Program in
Ocean City, Maryland. He has
published research in
Journal of Urban Affairs,
Antipode, Regional Studies,
and
Growth & Change. He
currently serves as President of
the Middle Atlantic Division of
the Association of American
Geographers (MAD-AAG) and on the
editorial boards of
The Professional Geographer
and
The Arab World Geographer.
He received his Ph.D.
(Geography) from the University
of Cincinnati, M.S. (Geography)
from the University of Alabama,
and B.S. (Political Science)
from Towson University. He
previously taught at Texas A&M
University in College Station,
Texas, and at the University of
Akron in Akron, Ohio. His
teaching duties at Salisbury
include Economic Geography,
Political Geography, Regional
Economic Development, and World
Geography: Africa and the
Americas.
Dr. de Socio has taught two PACE 1
credit seminars to our
Presidential Citizen Scholars.
In Spring 2009, Dr. de Socio led
a PACE seminar in
which the class mapped
foreclosures on Maryland’s Lower
Eastern Shore for calendar year
2008. Further, the class
explored whether local banks
foreclosed on residential
properties less than regional
and national banks. That project
culminated in a research article
which is now in the
revise-and-resubmit phase at a
prominent international journal
of geography.
In Spring 2012, Dr. de Socio is
leading students in exploring
the community networks of
philanthropy and volunteer
fraternal/soronal organizations
on Maryland’s Lower Eastern
Shore. Specifically, the class
is seeking to explore whether
such organizations comprise
robust networks of interlocking
memberships that collectively
produce the kinds of social
capital that make rural
communities resilient to natural
disasters, for example.
"SCALE
AND THE FORECLOSURE CRISIS:
COMMUNITY VERSUS NON-LOCAL
RESIDENTIAL BANK LOAN DEFAULTS
IN MARYLAND’S LOWER EASTERN
SHORE"
PACE History and Co-Founders
PACE was
launched in 1999 to reinvigorate
the idea of a state university
as a place where civic and
political involvement could be
developed and where students'
spirits of generosity and
intellectual curiosity could
foster engagement. PACE is a
non-partisan institute committed
to civic learning, engaged
citizenship and community
involvement that sparks interest
in public affairs and civic life
for the students and the
communities of Maryland's
Eastern Shore.
The
Institute:
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provides students with
enriching learning
experiences through
interactive,
thought-provoking seminars
and classes,
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sponsors lectures that bring
public speakers to campus,
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serves the region as a
non-partisan "public square"
for ideas and debate,
- and
offers hands-on student
internships.
Dr.
Harry Basehart, co-founder
of PACE, is professor emeritus
of Political Science. Dr.
Basehart co-authored the book,
"State and Local Government: Politics and Public
Policies," which is used extensively across the
country in university government courses.
During his 37-year tenure
at SU, Dr. Basehart
conducted over 15 voter and citizen satisfaction surveys
and supervised over 300
students in governmental internships,
many in the Maryland General Assembly. Within the
community, he served for several years as chair of
the City of Salisbury Ethics Commission. |
