VITA
Joseph B. Parker
605 S 34th Avenue Office Address and Phone
Hattiesburg, MS 39402 USM Box 5108
(601) 268-9967 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5108
(601) 266-4907 or 266-4310
Education
B. A., Louisiana State University, 1957, Political Science
M. A., Louisiana State University, 1962, Political Science
Ph. D., Tulane University, 1971, Political Science
Present Position
Professor of Political Science
University of Southern Mississippi
Teaching Experience
Tulane University, Fall Semester 1962 (Teaching Assistant)
Louisiana State University in New Orleans (now University of New Orleans), Spring Semester 1963 to 1967
Indiana University at South Bend, Fall Semester 1967 to 1973
Louisiana State University - Shreveport, Fall Semester 1973 to May 1975
University of Southern Mississippi, August 1975 to present
Major Teaching Interests
The American Presidency
The Legislative Process
Political Parties and Political Campaigns
State and Local Politics
Mississippi Politics
Introduction to American Government
British Politics
Professional Memberships
Southern Political Science Association
Mississippi Political Science Association
Center for the Study of the Presidency
Publications: Articles
(Co-author with James F. Lea) "Political Consciousness of American Government Students," DEA News, Spring 1978.
(Co-author with John R. Van Wingen) "Measuring Friends and Neighbors Voting," American Politics Quarterly, July 1979.
Publications: Books and Chapters In Books
The Morrison Era: Reform Politics In New Orleans (Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 1974).
(Co-editor with David M. Landry) Mississippi Government and
Politics in Transition (Kendall - Hunt, 1976).
(Co-editor with William H. Hatcher) Civics and Law for Mississippi(Magnolia Publishing Company; first edition, 1980; second edition, 1987). Author of four chapters in this book.
(With Perry H. Howard) "Recent Louisiana Politics: (Chapter X) in Perry H. Howard, Political Tendencies in Louisiana (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971).
(Joint editor with T. M. Carleton and P. H. Howard), Readings in Louisiana Political History (Claitor's Publishing Company,1975, Second edition, 1988).
(With Edward N. Kearny) "The President and Political Parties" in Dimensions of the Modern Presidency (Forum Press, 1981).
(With David M. Landry) "The Louisiana Political Culture," Chapter 1 in James Bolner (ed.), Louisiana Politics: Festival in a Labyrinth (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982).
"New Style Campaign Politics: Madison Avenue Comes to Dixie," in James F. Lea (ed.), Continuity and Change in Southern Politics
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988).
(Co-editor with James Robertson) The Constitution: Its Origins,
Development, and Application Today (Kinko;s, 1987), a collection of readings.
Biographical essays on Edwin Edwards and David Treen in The
Louisiana Governors (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990).
(Editor) Politics in Mississippi (Salem, Wisconsin: Sheffield
Publishing Company, 1993).
(Editor) Politics in Mississippi, Second edition. (Salem, Wisconsin: Sheffield Publishing Company, 2001).
(Editor) Mississippi Studies: The Emergence of Modern Mississippi(Jackson: Magnolia Publishing Company, 1994). Author of four Chapters in this book.
Book Reviews In:
Journal of Politics
Review of Politics
Choice
South Bend Tribune
The Southern Quarterly
The Hattiesburg American
Papers Presented
"Two Turbulent Decades: Political Relations Between New Orleans and Louisiana, 1930 - 1950" (Delivered to the Louisiana Historical Association on March 27, 1971).
(With Jimmy Lea) "Political Consciousness of the American Government Student" (Delivered to the Louisiana Political Science Association Conference on Teaching on February 25, 1977 and the Mississippi Political Science Association Annual Meeting on April 15, 1977).
With David M. Landry and James H. Wolfe) "Segmented Pluralism in Louisiana Politics" (Delivered to the Louisiana Political Science Association on March 4, 1977).
(With John R. Van Wingen) "1977 Survey of Louisiana and Mississippi College Students: Aggregate Results" (Delivered to the Southern Political Science Association in November 1978).
"Southerners in Congress, 1961-1979" (Delivered to the 1979 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association November 1, 1979).
"Madison Avenue Comes to Dixie: Professional Campaigning in Louisiana and Mississippi" (Delivered to the 1981 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association November 5, 1981).
"Out-of-State Professional Campaign Consultants in Mississippi: A Study of Successful Hit and Run Campaigners" (Delivered to the Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics 1982 meeting, March 25-27, 1982).
"Louisiana Jambalaya: The Governor's Race of 1987" (Delivered to the Southwestern Political Science Association meeting, March 23-26, 1988).
"Political Change in Mississippi: 1965-1992" (Delivered to the
Southwestern Political Science Association Meeting in Austin, Texas, March 19-21, 1992).
"Making Do On The Macon Ridge: The Eating Patterns of Southern
Farm Families During World War II" (Delivered to the Conference on Eating for Victory: American Foodways and World War II, at the University of Colorado, October 8-9, 1993).
(With Allan McBride) “The Politics of Mardi Gras: Tactics of Evasion and Resistence in New Orleans” (Presented to the Conference on the South - Sponsored by the College of International and Continuing Education, University of Southern Mississippi, and Swansea University September 21, 2002)
Media Activity
Serve as political analyst for WDAM - TV and Mississippi Public Radio