Michael Le Roy
Professor
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty
300 W. Hawthorne Road
Spokane, WA 99251
Phone: (509) 777-3755
mleroy@whitworth.edu

Office Location: McEachran 216

Education: Ph.D., Vanderbilt University (1994)

Michael Le Roy was raised on Bainbridge Island, Washington, is a 1989 graduate of Whitworth University, and returned to Whitworth in fall 2002 from Wheaton College, in Illinois, where he was chair of the department of political science. After teaching three years for the Political Science department  Le Roy accepted the position as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty. Le Roy still teaches for the Political Science department offering Research Methods and he continues as a team member for the Central America Study-Service Program. 

Le Roy was a Fulbright Scholar at Gothenburg University, in Sweden, between 1992 and 1994. His research on civil society, xenophobia, and the European Union has been published in the journal Comparative Politics. He is also the author of Comparative Politics: An Introduction (4th edition), and is the co-author of Research Methods in Political Science (6th edition), with the late Michael Corbett. Le Roy won Wheaton College’s faculty achievement award for excellence in teaching in 1998 and a similar award from the American Political Science Association's honor society, Pi Sigma Alpha, in 1999.

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