Joseph A. Aistrup

Education

PhD, Indiana University

MA, Virginia Tech University

BA, Fort Hays State University

About Me

Joseph A. Aistrup is a professor in the Department of Political Science. He served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University from 2013-2021. He came to Auburn from Kansas State University where he was associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He began his tenure at Kansas State in 2002 as associate professor and head of the Department of Political Science. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Fort Hays State in 1982, a master’s from Virginia Tech in 1984, and PhD from Indiana University in 1989.

Publications

• Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South. 1996. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky.
• Kansas Politics and Government: The Clash of Political Cultures. 2010. University of Nebraska Press with Edward Flentje.
• "Hyper-Extractive Economies in the U.S.: A Coupled-Systems Approach," 2013. Applied Geography 37: 88-100 (Joseph A. Aistrup, Laszlo Kulcsar, Jacob Mauslein, Sarah Beach, and David Steward).
• "Structured Partisan Competition: A Vote-Shares Model of Party Alignments and Realignments." 2012. Social Science Quarterly 93: 750-778.
• "Racism, Resentment and Regionalism: The South and the Nation in the 2008 Presidential Election." 2011. American Review of Politics 32: 131-154.
• "Southern Exceptionalism? Presidential Voting in the South and non-South." 2010. Social Science Quarterly 91: 906-27.
• "Legacy of Race in 2008" in B.D. Kapeluck, L.W. Moreland, and R.P. Steed eds Presidential Elections in the South: Politics in Context. 2010. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., pp. 233-250. (Joseph A. Aistrup, Emizet Kisangani and Roxanne L. Piri)