Political Science

Pete Wielhouwer

Associate Professor

3422 Friedmann Hall
(269) 387-5685

After earning the Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 1994, Pete Wielhouwer taught at Spelman College and Regent University’s School of Government, where he directed the graduate program in campaign management and the university’s nonpartisan Center for Grassroots Politics. Most recently he was the speechwriter to the two-star general in charge of coordinating operational experiments for the U.S. military at United States Joint Forces Command’s Joint Experimentation directorate, through General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems. His teaching and research areas include campaigns and elections, political behavior, faith and politics, and racial politics. He has also been a campaign ethics consultant for (among others) American University’s Campaign Management Institute, the American Association of Political Consultants, the Leadership Institute, and several Virginia election campaigns. Dr. Wielhouwer’s research has appeared in such journals as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and American Politics Research; recent research currently appears in Politics in the New South: Representation of African-Americans in State Legislatures (SUNY Press, 2005) and The Electoral Challenge: Theory Meets Practice (CQ Press, 2006). He is currently co-authoring a campaigns and voting behavior textbook. During 2004-05 he was the Program Chair and Vice President for the Southwestern Political Science Association, and in 2005 was elected Conference Director for the Southwestern Social Science Association. He and his wife Deborah home school their five children.

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