Dr. Stan Buchanan
Dr. Stan Buchanan
| Position | Associate Professor, Political Science and Director of Public Administration |
| Year Joined ISU | 2001 |
| Expertise and Activity Statement |
Don't be fooled. Dr. Buchanan is neither from Tennessee (PhD UT/Knoxville
'96) nor Texas (MPA Baylor '85). Nor is he a Hoosier by birth, although
he'd like to be. There's no remedy for those kinds of mistakes at this
late date. No, he's from California--something he tries to keep from
students, friends and fellow faculty, for reasons obvious to everyone NOT from
California. (For those of you who like puzzles, find the OTHER guy from
the left coast on our faculty.) As a political scientist, his interests lie with state and local government, Congress and the bureaucracy. As a student of public administration, he prefers the study of the politics of the bureaucracy, although he is currently developing research in the nature of American nonprofit organizations and their relationship with public agencies. Dr. Buchanan lives in an old farmhouse in Youngstown with his wife Anne, a
freelance book editor, and his daughter Elizabeth, a high school student and
published poet. Also included in the household, not necessarily at his
request, are two dogs, a couple of cats, two or three rats (depending on what
month it is), the occasional hamster, and other various itinerant fauna. |
| Office Location | Holmstedt Hall 306 |
| Telephone | 812-237-2437 |
| sbuchanan1@indstate.edu |