Joseph F. Kobylka

Professor of Political Science
Inducted 2001

Kobylka, who received his Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota, joined the SMU faculty in 1983.  He was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers in 2001 and received the Distinguished Teaching Professor Award. He teaches courses in American politics, constitutional law, judicial politics and American political thought.  Author or co-author of three books and more than a dozen articles, he is currently finishing a biography of former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmum.  His research address judicial processes and behavior, and the politics and thought of the American founding.

Kobylka is the recipient of four Rotunda Teaching Awards, the Willis M. Tate Award, "M" Award, Golden Mustang Award, Deschner Award, Godbey Author's Award and teaching and service awards given by Mortar Board, the Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils, and the Department of Residence Life and Student Housing.  He currently serves as faculty advisor to the SMU Honor Council, Political Science Symposium and Pi Sigma Alpha.

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