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Dr. Dongkyu Kim

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School of Political Science, Public Affairs and Security Studies
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dongkyu.kim@utrgv.edu
956-665-2813

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Faculty Published Research

Dr. Michael Smith has published an article, "Small state, global norm: the challenge of Syrian asylum-seekers in Cyprus." in Third World Quarterly (2025).

Dr. Hanna Shin has published a co-authored book chapter (with Fangchao Dong and Muhammad Tauhidur Rahman), "Sustainable water management and navigating the water challenges in East Asian cities." in Climate-Neutral Water Management: A guide to sustainable solutions (UK: IOP Publishing, 2025). 
Dr. Juhyun Bae has published a co-authored article (with Jake Haselswerdt), “The Safety Net and the Gig Economy: Policy Attitudes and Political Participation.” in Perspectives on Politics (2025). 
 
Dr. Juhyun Bae has published an article, "The effects of the expanded pandemic unemployment assistance on non‐standard workers' financial and mental well-being." in Risk Management & Insurance Review (2025).

In September 2025, Dr. Richard Longoria published a co-authored article with Dana Reyes entitled “The Irrelevance of “Peak Fame” on Celebrity Candidate Success” in the Social Science Quarterly journal. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ssqu.70085

Dr. Alexandre Couture Gagnon and other published "Québec on the World Stage: Examining a Provincial Approach to Cultural Diplomacy." The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society (2025), Vol 54, No 6. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10632921.2024.2442954

Dr. Mi-son Kim and others published "Gendered punishment? How the corruption of female politicians affects public opinion of female political leadership." International Political Science Review (2025). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01925121241302776

In December 2024, Dr. Dongkyu Kim and others published "Examining the presence and effects of coherence and fragmentation in the Gulf of Maine fishery management network" in Regional Environmental Change, Vol 25, No.3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-024-02328-y

In December 2024, Dr. Dongkyu Kim and others published "Water challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border: learning from community and expert voices" in Ecology & Society, https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15632-290435.

Dr. Terence M. Garrett published a chapter, "Border Security," in Frontera (TCU Press, 2024).

Dr. Carlos Gutierrez-Mannix published "The Twitter Blackout: Do congressional rules influence the cyberworld?" in Social Science Quarterly (Online Early view:  https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13432)

Dr. Clyde W. Barrow published a chapter, “The Contradiction of the Corporate University: Academic Inefficiency and the Iron Cage of Bureaucracy,” in Research Handbook on Academic Labour Markets(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024)

Dr. Richard Longoria published "Shaking the tin cup: Celebrity candidate fundraising in American elections" in Social Science Quarterly. (Online Early View: https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13403)

Dr. Clyde W. Barrow published "What Comes After the Critique of the Corporate University? Toward a Syndicalist University" in Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis, Vol. 3, No. 1 (April 2024): Article 1.

Dr. Clyde W. Barrow edited the Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science that Edward Elgar published in March 2024.

Dr. Terence M. Garrett published “Política migratoria en la era del Trumpismo y del espectáculo mediático: El significado de una presidencia de Trump u otro candidato en 2024 para las Relaciones México-Estados Unidos” in Norteamérica, Revista Académica Del CISAN-UNAM, Vol. 19, No. 1 (February 2024): https://doi.org/10.22201/cisan.24487228e.2024.1.658.

In November 2023, Dr. Dongkyu Kim and others published “Managing Inter-Organizational Trust and Risk Perceptions in Transboundary Fisheries Governance Networks” in Marine Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105927.

In November 2023, Dr. Mark J. Kaswan published a Book Review of Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century in New Political Science, https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2023.2273064.

Dr. James Parisot published “Capitalism and the Creation of the U.S. Constitution” in Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 37, No. 2 (October 2023): 199-211.

Dr. Álvaro J. Corral published “Raids at Work: Latinx Immigrant Labor Precarity and the Spectacle of ICE Worksite Enforcement Raids” in Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3 (September 2023): 1529–1541.

Dr. Terence M. Garrett and Arthur J. Sementelli published “Revisiting the Policy Implications of COVID-19, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants on the Mexico–U.S. Border: Creating (and Maintaining) States of Exception in the Trump and Biden Administrations” in Politics & Policy, Vol. 51, No. 3 (June 2023): 458–475.

Dr. Álvaro J. Corral published “The Wall between Latinas and Latinos? Gender and Immigration Enforcement Attitudes among U.S. Latina/o Voters” in Politics & Gender (June 2023): 1-25.

In the abstract for an interview with Dr. Clyde W. Barrow, his book, Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928 (1990), is praised as "a touchstone text for generations of scholars studying higher education." See “Reflections on Universities, Politics, and the Capitalist State: An Interdisciplinary and Intergenerational Discussion with Clyde W. Barrow” in ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol. 22, No. 2 (May 2023): 878-893.

Dr. Carlos D. Gutierrez-Mannix published the chapter “The Criminal Justice System in Mexico” in Comparative Criminal Justice: International Trends and Practices that Jospeter M. Mbuba edited and Rowman & Littlefield Publishers released in April 2023.

In February 2023, Dr. Dongkyu Kim and others published “On the Architecture of Collaboration in Inter-Organizational Natural Resource Management Networks” in Journal of Environmental Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116994.

Dr. Carla Angulo-Pasel published “Border Vigilante/Militia Activity, the National Security State, and the Migrant ‘Threat’” in Critical Studies on Terrorism, Vol. 16, No. 1 (February 2023): 192-214.

In January 2023, Dr. Mark J. Kaswan published “An Equality of Security: Bentham, Thompson, and the Principles Subsidiary to Utility” in Revue d’études benthamiennes, https://journals.openedition.org/etudes-benthamiennes/10469.

In January 2023, Dr. Clyde W. Barrow published the article "Nicos Poulantzas Was a Vital Theorist of Democratic Socialism" in Jacobin, self-described as “a leading voice of the American left,” https://jacobin.com/2023/01/nicos-poulantzas-revolutionary-reformism-democratic-socialism-state-theory.

A bilingual Euro-American journal of historical and theoretical studies of politics and law translated into Spanish a previously published article by Dr. Clyde W. Barrow and republished it as "La Globalización y el Surgiemento del Estado Fortaleza" in Soft Power, Vol. 9, No. 2 (July-December 2022): 91-100.

Dr. Richard T. Longoria published “Celebrity Politics in the American South: The Case of Ben ‘Cooter’ Jones” in Journal of Political Science, Vol. 50: No. 1 (November 2022): 7-26.

Dr. Terence M. Garrett published “Border Securocracy: Global Expansion of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Bureaucratic Apparatus Before, During and Beyond COVID-19” in Administrative Theory & Praxis, Vol. 45, No. 3 (September 2022): 230–246.

Dr. Richard T. Longoria authored a book entitled Celebrities in American Elections: Case Studies in Celebrity Politics, which Lexington Books published in September 2022.

Dr. Alexandre Couture Gagnon and Alexandre Sirois edited the book Le délire de l’empire américain that Éditions La Presse published in September 2022.

Dr. Andrew H. Smith published “Service-Learning at a Hispanic-Serving Institution: A Preliminary Study” in Journal of Political Science Education, Vol. 19, No. 1 (September 2022): 91-106.

In September 2022, Dr. Justin Curtis published “Patterns of Islamist Violent Mobilization in the Context of Islamist Party Politics” in The Social Science Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2022.2119730.

Dr. Terence M. Garrett and Dr. Arthur J. Sementelli published “COVID-19, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants on the Mexico–U.S. Border: Creating States of Exception” in Politics & Policy, Vol. 50, No. 4 (August 2022): 872–886.

Dr. Richard T. Longoria published “George Murphy: A Celebrity Politician” in Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 104, No. 2 (Summer 2022): 201-227.

Dr. Jokubas Salyga published “Monoliths of Authoritarianism, Cartographies of Popular Disenfranchisement and the Ascendance of the Far-Right in Estonia” in Global Political Economy, Vol. 1, No. 1 (July 2022): 129-154.

Dr. Bryant William Sculos authored the book The Dialectics of Global Justice: From Liberal to Postcapitalist Cosmopolitanism that SUNY Press published in July 2022.

In June 2022, Dr. Carla Angulo-Pasel published “The More Things Change...Governance and Resistance along the Mexico–Guatemala Border” in Borders in Globalization Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring & Summer 2022): 26-37.

Dr. Chris O'Kane and Dr. Kirstin Munro published the chapter “Marxian Economics and the Critique of Political Economy” in Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy, which Bloomsbury Publishing released in June 2022 and was edited by Dr. Werner Bonefeld and Dr. Chris O'Kane.

Dr. Justin Curtis published “Reevaluating Islamist Electoral Success and Participation in Government” in Digest of Middle East Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3 (June 2022): 170-184.

Dr. Sonia Alianak and Dr. Thomas West authored a book entitled Parallel Religious Revolutions in Britain in 1688 and Egypt in 2013, which Cambridge Scholars Publishing released in May 2022.

In March 2022, Dr. Mark J. Kaswan published “Property, Ownership and Employee Ownership: Employee Control in ESOPs” in Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JPEO-11-2020-0028/full/html.

In March 2022, Dr. Natasha Altema McNeely, Dr. Dongkyu Kim, and Dr. Mi-son Kim published “Deportation Threat and Political Engagement Among Latinos in the Rio Grande Valley” in Ethnic and Racial Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2048044.

Dr. Clyde W. Barrow published the article "What's in a Name? From New Political Science to Critical Political Science" in New Political Science, Vol. 44, No. 1 (March 2022). 

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