{"id":580,"date":"2020-06-30T19:35:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T19:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=580"},"modified":"2020-10-27T17:15:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T17:15:23","slug":"herschel-thomas","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/speaker\/herschel-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Herschel Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thomas is an\u00a0Assistant Professor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uta.edu\/pols\/\">Political Science<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uta.edu\/uta\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of\u00a0Texas at Arlington<\/a>. \u00a0He completed my Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. His areas of specialization include public policy and American politics with an emphasis on organized interests, lobbying, and agenda-setting. Recent work explores substantive applications in the areas of public health and disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His research has been funded by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1800302&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\">National Science Foundation<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cattcenter.iastate.edu\/\">Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics<\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirksencenter.org\/\">Dirksen Congressional Center<\/a>, and the UT-Arlington College of Liberal Arts (C2C Program). He has published in the\u00a0<em>American Journal of Public Health,\u00a0Policy Studies Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Public Administration<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Politics Research Quarterly,\u00a0Interest Groups &amp; Advocacy, Politics &amp; Gender,\u00a0Cognitive Systems Research,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>PS: Political Science and Politics.<\/em> His book (with Timothy LaPira),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Revolving-Door-Lobbying-Representation-Government\/dp\/0700624503\">Revolving Door Lobbying<\/a>, provides a comprehensive analysis of former government officials working as lobbyists in Washington and was published by the University Press of Kansas. Follow-up research explores \u201cshadow lobbying\u201d as well as gender dynamics and representation in the lobbying profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At UT-Arlington, he teaches&nbsp;courses on American national government, interest groups&nbsp;and advocacy, research design and political analysis, and public policy analysis. In 2019, he received the UTA President\u2019s Award for Excellence in Teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":581,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-580","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Arlington","speaker_last_name":"Thomas","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/580\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/thepolicyagenda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}