Mark Stephen Jendrysik Scientist

Mark Jendrysik (born October 2, 1964) is a professor in the Political Science and Public Administration Department of the University of North Dakota (UND). Prior to his appointment at UND he held visiting positions at Bucknell University and the University of Mississippi. He also held a postdoctoral appointment at the Center for Survey Research of the University of Virginia. He likes to say that he was "seeing America one college at a time." He is primarily interested in contemporary American political thought, but he has also published and presented papers on the seventeenth-century English political thought, utopian political theory, and ethnic politics in the United States. He is the author of Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries (Lexington, 2002) and Modern Jeremiahs: Contemporary Visions of American Decline (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his B.A. is from Providence College He is a native of Chicopee, Massachusetts.