Curriculum Vita

 

Andrew J. Theising, Ph.D.

 

(Public Version--Updated September 2011)

Teaching Office:                                             Research Office:

Department of Political Science                     Institute for Urban Research

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville        Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Box 1453, Peck Hall 1235                               Box 1246, Rendleman Hall 2215

Edwardsville, IL  62026-1453                          Edwardsville, IL 62026-1246

(618) 650-2308 (direct)                                   (618) 650-5262 (direct)

 

Administrative Office:

Office of the Provost

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Box 1021, Rendleman Hall 3102

Edwardsville, IL 62026-1021

(618) 650-3678 (direct)

                                                                       

Websites and E-mail:                                     Social Networks:

www.siue.edu/~atheisi                                   Facebook:  www.facebook.com  Andrew Theising

www.siue.edu/iur                                            Linked In:  www.linkedin.com  Andrew Theising

www.andrewtheising.com                              Twitter: www.twitter.com  @ Andrew_Theising        

andrew.theising@gmail.com                          COS: http://myprofile.cos.com/atheisi          

                                                                                                                       

 

 

Degrees Earned                                                                                                                   

 

Bachelor of Arts          Pierre Laclede Honors College of the

University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

·         Political Science with emphasis in Public Administration

·         Pierre Laclede Honors Scholar

 

Master of Arts University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

·         Political Science

 

Doctor of Philosophy  University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

·         Political Science

·         Dissertation:  Profitable Boundaries:  Incorporating the Industrial Suburb; Dennis R. Judd, chair.

 

Teaching Activity                                                                                                        

 

Current Teaching Position:

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Southern Illinois University

Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL.  Since 2002.

Regular courses taught: 

  • American National Government POLS112,
  • Introduction to Public Administration POLS320,
  • Urban Politics POLS344,
  • American State Government POLS343,
  • Business and Society IS401;
  • various undergraduate and graduate special readings, internship courses, special topics courses in the areas of Economic Development, Bureaucracy, and American Politics.

 

Adjunct Faculty, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.  2010.

  • teaching graduate students in Social, Economic, and Political Environment of Social Work (SEPE), requiring students to have theoretical, methodological, and practical understanding of these three context areas. 

 

Teaching Distinctions:

  • SIUE Teaching Recognition Award, 2007
  • Affiliated Faculty Member, SIUE Environmental Sciences Program
  • Affiliated Faculty Member, SIUE Women’s Studies Program
  • Affiliated Faculty Member, SIUE Black Studies Program
  • Graduate I Faculty Member, SIUE Graduate School 

 

Research and Creative Scholarly Activity                                                             

 

Current Research Position:

Director, Institute for Urban Research, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville,

Edwardsville, IL.  Provide leadership and management for this research division of the University.  The Institute pursues its own research agenda, while also supporting interdisciplinary faculty teams within the university, serving as a resource to local government and social service agencies, and providing contract support to other initiatives.

 

Principal, Applied Research Collaborative—a consortium of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, St. Louis University, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Three-university collaboration on applied research projects, providing fee-for-service consulting.

 

Research, Conference Presentations and Activities:

Urban Decline and the Story of East St. Louis.  October 2002.  Invited research presentation

as the opening general session speaker, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Rays of Hope

Conference, East St. Louis.

 

The Hollow Prize of East St. Louis:  How Institutional Function and Institutional Culture Limited

            a City’s Future (with Debra H. Moore).  October 2003.  Academic paper presented at

the Conference on Illinois History, Springfield. 

 

Discussant (invited), Made In USA:  The East St. Louis Story.  September 2004.  Brownfields

2004:  Gateway to Revitalization (EPA/ICMA co-sponsored National Brownfields Conference), St. Louis. 

 

A Contextual Analysis of TIF, Economic Development, and Culture (with Nicholas Guehlstorf).

April 2005.  Academic paper presented at the 2005 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago.

 

Big City Political Machines and the Good Ol’ Boy Network:  Has One Replaced the Other?

April 7, 2005.  Academic paper presented at the SIUE College of Arts and Sciences

Colloquium Thinking About Masculinity.

 

Thinking About Industrial Suburbs and Institutional Design.  Presentation to the Brown Bag

            Speakers Series of the St. Louis Metropolitan Research Exchange, October 6, 2005.

           (non-refereed).

 

The Church as Service Delivery Mechanism:  A Case Paper.  Presented at the SIUE College of

Arts and Sciences Colloquium Thinking About Religion, March 30, 2006.

 

Shadow Institutions, (with Debra Moore, SIUC).  Presented at the Southern History Association

          Conference, Birmingham AL,  November 18, 2006.

 

The Industrial Legacy of East St. Louis.  April 5, 2007.  Poster presented at the SIUE College of

         Arts and Sciences Colloquium Thinking About Environment.

 

Evolving Local Government Purpose through Economic Development (with Debra Moore). 

April 14, 2007.  Academic paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association

Annual Conference, Chicago.

 

Frankly Famous Failures.  May 3, 2007.  Invited presentation as session speaker at the Federal

            Reserve Bank of St. Louis Exploring Innovation Conference, St. Louis.

 

Panelist, Disciplining Interdisciplinarity?  The Uncertain Future of Interdisciplinary Research in

the Humanities (with Christa Johnson).  2008.  SIUE College of Arts and Sciences Colloquium Thinking about the University.

 

Police Corruption and the Culture of Violence:  The Role of Public Corruption in the Social

Condition of East St. Louis, Illinois (with Debra Moore).  April 3, 2008.  Academic paper presented at the Rupture, Repression, and Uprising Conference at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

 

Demonstrative Study of Land Value Taxation in East St. Louis, Illinois. (with Hugh Pavitt) July 7,

2008.  Research study presented at the Council of Georgist Organizations Conference, Kansas City, MO.  Funded research by the Public Revenue Education Council.

 

Discussant (invited): The St. Louis Applied Research Collaborative (with Sarah Coffin and Mark

Tranel).  Leadership in Interdisciplinarity, Networking, and Collaboration (LINC) Conference, St. Louis, MO; February 25, 2011.

 

Economic Development Case Studies in the St. Louis, MO Region (with Sarah Coffin and Mark

Tranel).  For presentation at the Urban Affairs Association Conference, New Orleans, LA; March 17, 2011.

 

 

 

Published Research and Publication Activity:

Made In USA:  East St. Louis—The Rise and Fall of an Industrial River Town.  2003. 

St. Louis:  Virginia Publishing.  Named The Riverfront Times’ Best Book by a Local

Author for 2003.  Companion piece to the public television documentary of the same name.

 

“The Hollow Prize of East St. Louis:  How Institutional Function and Institutional Culture Limited

a City’s Future,” co-authored with Debra Moore, Journal of Illinois History, Spring 2008.

 

St. Louis Currents:  The Bi-State Region after a Century of Planning.  2009.  Co-editor (with

Mark Abbott).  Reedy Press, St. Louis, MO.  E-book edition,  2009.  Print edition, 2011.

 

“Is the Mississippi River the Middle of the Region or the Edge?  Cultural Distinctions between

Missouri and Illinois,” St. Louis Currents:  The Bi-State Region after a Century of Planning. 2009.  St. Louis:  Reedy Press.

 

America’s First Interstate—The National Road and Its Reach Toward St. Clair County, Illinois,”

The Confluence.  Spring/Summer 2010 ed; pp 4-15.

 

“How Three Lives Shaped a City,” The Making of an All-America City.  Mark Abbott, ed. 

2011.  St. Louis:  Virginia Publishing.

 

Images of America:  East St. Louis (with Bill Nunes). 2011.  Mt. Pleasant SC:  Arcadia

Publishing.

 

Funded Research, Awarded: 

A Comparative Contextual Analysis of the Effect of TIF on Economic Development in the Bi-

State St. Louis MSA with Nicholas Guehlstorf, co-investigator.  Grant submitted to the

SIUE Institute for Urban Research, $8,500.   Submitted October 2003  (Awarded, May 2004).

 

Demonstrative Study of Land Value Taxation in East St. Louis, Illinois with Hugh Pavitt, co-

investigator.  Grant submitted to the Public Revenue Education Council, $1,600.  Submitted and awarded, August 2007.

 

Economic Development Case Studies (with Sarah Coffin and Mark Tranel).  East-West

Gateway Council of Governments.  Fee-for-service.  Summer 2009 (phase 1) and Summer 2010 (phase 2).  $50,000 in total over two years; my portion $10,000 over two years.

 

Regional Plan for Sustainable Development (with Sarah Coffin and Mark Tranel).  East-West

Gateway Council of Governments (lead agency).  Submitted to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, August 2010.  Awarded, October 2010 (contract pending).  $4.5 million over three years; my portion $150,000 over three years. 

 

Other Research Activity:

  • Brownfields Research Team, Institute for Urban Research.  2008.
  • Research Fellow, SIUE Institute for Urban Research.  2004-2005.
  • Technical Consultant, Made In USA:  The Story of East St. Louis.  Produced and directed by Jim Kirchherr.  KETC Channel 9.  60 min.  2003.  (Emmy Award-winning documentary based on my research)

 

Other Professional Experience                                                         

 

Public Policy Director, FOCUS St. Louis, 1996-2001;  Significant projects include:

  • staffing and management of a citizen review of city service delivery for all executive departments for Mayor Clarence Harmon, City of St. Louis (1997)
  • staffing and facilitation of Welfare Reform Task Force (1996)
  • staffing and facilitation of Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Facility (1999-2000)
  • staffing and facilitation of Charter Reforms for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (led to ballot initiative), 2000

 

Director, Neighborhood Technical Assistance Center, East St. Louis Action Research Project,

University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. 2001-2002  Significant projects include:

  • managed the implementation of an EPA Lead Abatement Grant,  2002
  • coordinated activity and provided technical assistance for public and private initiatives
  • prepared grants for neighborhood organizations

 

Academic, Professional, and Community Service                        

 

Current Administrative Position:

Coordinator for Policy, Communication, and Issues of Concern, Office of the Provost, Southern

Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL.  Responsible for policy development and application for all areas of Academic Affairs, oversight of communication from all Academic Affairs units, and representation of the Provost on key committees.

 

Board Chair, St. Louis Metropolitan Research Exchange (multi-university consortium of

research institutions studying the St. Louis metropolitan area), 2010-2012.

 

Chair, SIUE Faculty Grievance Committee.  Administrative leader of this arbitrator of faculty

disputes for the University.  2010-2011.

 

Member, SIUE College of Arts and Sciences Personnel Committee, Promotion and Tenure

Subcommittee.  2010-2012 (incoming subcommittee chair, 2011-2012).  Review all applications for promotion, tenure, and sabbatical for the College.

 

Member, East St. Louis University Collaborative, 2010 to date.  Member of this group of all

higher education institutions doing work in East St. Louis, IL.  Convened by the George

Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis.

 

Member, City of East St. Louis Sesquicentennial Committee, 2011.  Member of the official

planning group to celebrate the city’s 150th anniversary.

 

Member, Pierre Laclede Honors College Leadership Council, 2011.  Community board that

supports the Dean of the Honors College on various management matters.