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Scott Huffmon, Ph.D.
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An often-quoted expert on Southern politics, Scott Huffmon (Ph.D., University of Mississippi, American politics, political methodology) is associate professor of political science and director of the Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory at Winthrop. He manages all lab projects including constructing questionnaires, programming survey software, determining sampling frames, establishing appropriate survey methodology, overseeing interviewer training and supervision, establishing protocols for data collection, and conducting data analysis. Huffmon's extensive experience in survey research began as a research associate with the Social Science Research Laboratory at the University of Mississippi where he aided in the design, creation, implementation and analysis of telephone and mail surveys, among other responsibilities. Additional quantitative training came at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan where he studied maximum likelihood analysis and scaling and dimensional analysis.
Adolphus G. Belk, Jr., Ph.D.
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A political science and African-American studies professor at Winthrop University, Dr. Adolphus G. Belk's research and teaching interests include American government and politics, African-American politics, the politics of race and class in the United States, mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex, crime control and anti-drug policy, and social welfare policy.
Belk's research has been published in The Journal of Race and Policy and by the Joint Center of Political and Economic Studies. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript analyzing the politics of the American prison-industrial complex.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Belk earned his Ph.D. in Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was also a research associate for the University's African-American Leadership Institute. Belk is a member of the American Political Science Association and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists..