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Matthew Lindstrom

Professor
Biography

Edward L. Henry Professor of Political Science at CSB/SJU; Director, The Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement at SJU; Co-director, CSB Marie and Robert Jackson Fellows Program and CSB/SJU Washington, D.C. Summer Study Program

Why am I a political scientist?

I chose to get a doctorate degree in political science and work in higher education because it offers me an opportunity to influence the next generation of civic leaders and continually learn more about subjects I love. Within U.S. politics and public policy, my main areas for scholarly research are environmental policy and urban planning.

Professor Lindstrom in League of Minnesota Cities Film

Education
  • B.A., Saint John’s University, 1992
  • Ph.D., Northern Arizona University, 1997
Teaches
  • POLS 111 – Intro to U.S. Politics
  • POLS 350 – Sustainable Urban Planning
  • POLS 111 – Intro to U.S. Politics
  • POLS 330 – Environmental Politics
Featured Books, Publications and Papers:

Lindstrom M, West B. 2022. “The United States National Environmental Policy Act: History, Process, and Politics.” Hanna KS, editor. Routledge handbook of environmental impact assessment. London: Routledge. p. 302-317.

Lindstrom, Matthew, Encyclopedia of the U.S. Government and the Environment:  History, Policy, and Politics, editor, (Santa Barbara, CA:  ABC-CLIO, 2011).

Lindstrom, Matthew  and Hugh Bartling, editors, Suburban  Sprawl: Culture, Theory and Politics, (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2003). 

Lindstrom, Matthew and Zachary A. Smith, The National Environmental Policy Act:  Judicial Misconstruction, Legislative Indifference, and Executive Neglect (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002).  Reissued in paperback in 2008.  *Nominated for the Aaron Wildavsky Policy Studies Book Award. 

Lindstrom, Matthew, “Cooperation, Not False Competition.” Fragmented Families and Splintered Classes:  Why so much churning? What can be done? What will America come to look like?  A Symposium, Center for the American Experiment, October, 2012.

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