Business & Economics BEA 5 (The old Senate Room)
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: American Politics in the Era of Donald Trump"
Prof. Dr. L. Marvin Overby
Department of Political Science
University of Missouri
L. Marvin Overby is professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Missouri. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, while serving as a fellow in the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center. Before joining the faculty at Missouri in 2002, he held appointments at Loyola University Chicago and the University of Mississippi, as well as visiting appointments as a Fulbright distinguished chair at the University of Szeged in Hungary and at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies. His research interests include legislative careers (in the U. S. Congress and elsewhere), legislative rules and procedures (such as the discharge petition in the U. S. House of Representative, the filibuster in the Senate, and free votes in various parliamentary settings), minority politics, and Southern politics. His research articles have appeared in such leading disciplinary journals as the American Political Science Review, the American journal of Political Science, the journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.
Date: 17th of May (Wednesday) 2.30 - 4.00 pm
Location: BEA 5 (The old Senate Room)
