Career-Changing Finance Professional with Academic Leadership

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Bellevue, NE

Posted:

December 08, 2025

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Gregory A. Petrow[*]

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Bellevue, NE 68123 cell: 402-***-****

Education

Ph.D. 2005. Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

M.A. 2000. Political Science. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

B.A. 1996. Political Science. University of California at Berkeley, graduated highest honors.

Professional Experience

2023-August 2025. Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Political Science Department.

Courses taught to this date are: Graduate Seminar in American Government and Politics, Quantitative Analysis, Introduction to American Government, Introduction to Political Inquiry, Graduate Seminar in Research Methods, Political Psychology, Public Opinion and Polling, and Senior Seminar in Political Science. I am leaving the university at the end of August.

2011-2023. Associate Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Political Science Department.

2011-2021. Graduate Program Chair, Master’s Degree in Political Science program. I was the chair of the MS program for 10 years. When I started, we were one of only three on-line Political Science Master’s Degree programs in the country. We have about 15 active on-campus students, and our on-line cohort grew from just a few to 50. I recruited them using a Google Adword’s campaign. I was responsible for the general direction and vision of the program, and we had a staff assistant who advised with the students. I supervised about 15 Graduate Assistants (GAs) during my time as chair. The department employed three graduate students as graduate assistants, for two years at a time. Each GA would work up to 20 hours a week for faculty in the department, on a combination of teaching and research tasks.

2005-2011. Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Political Science Department.

Curriculum development

Master of Arts in History and Government. Developed 2019-21.

In conversations with the MS Political Science program’s Academic Program Coordinator, we recognized that a local and national market existed among students for a joint MS program with History. The Higher Learning Commission instituted a requirement for AP instructors to have 18 hours of post-secondary education units in their subjects. It is common for AP instructors to teach both AP History and Government, and the joint degree satisfies this requirement for these teachers by providing both in a single degree program.

MS program: Quantitative Analysis and Data Science Concentration. Approved 2022.

MS program: Concentration in American Government and Politics. Developed 2018.

MS program: International Affairs Concentration. Developed 2018.

Intelligence and National Security Certificate. Developed 2016.

Certificate in Government. Developed 2016. PSCI 4110: Political Psychology (created 2016)

PSCI 2000: Quantitative Analysis. Added a service learning component in which students administered surveys concerning civic knowledge and attitudes to high school students who were members of a high school club in OPS for migrant high school students. The UNO students also analyzed the data and submitted a report to OPS concerning the state of civic knowledge and attitudes of those students who were surveyed. (Spring 2014).

PSCI 3000: Quantitative Analysis (created 2014).

Public Opinion and Polling (created 2012).

Honors, Awards, and Grants: teaching

2022. Nominated by the Political Science Department for the university’s Excellence in Teaching Award.

2020. Nominated by the Political Science Department for the Outstanding Innovation in Teaching with Technology Award, sponsored by Information Technology Services.

2014, April. $1,000 from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs through the Service Learning Academy; Civic Participation Minigrant to fund a Service Learning Project involving the Introduction to Political Analysis students administering a survey to local migrant high school students concerning their civic attitudes.

Teaching Beyond the Classroom Since Tenure: Media (From Most to Least Time Commitment)

Op-ed in the Omaha World Herald. August 15, 2020. “Midlands Voices: Parents Should Demand Strong Health Protections by School Districts.”

TV, KETV Channel 7, ABC news affiliate. (November 6, 2012). Election night coverage and analysis, broadcast and Internet, 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

TV, KETV Channel 7 ABC Affiliate. (November 8, 2016). Live election night commentary, from 6 to 10 p.m.

TV, KETV Channel 7 ABC affiliate. (November 3, 2020). Live election night broadcast and on their Facebook stream from 7 to 9 p.m.

TV, KETV ABC affiliate. (November 6, 2018). Live during election night coverage at 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30.

TV, KETV ABC affiliate. (February 3, 2020). Live, election night commentary during the Iowa Caucuses.

TV, KETV Channel 7 ABC Affiliate. (November 4, 2014). I was live on television from 8 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. giving live election night analysis.

TV, Nebraska's PBS: Consider this ... with Cathy Wyatt. (October 2, 2020). Sole guest for the half-hour, "The First 2020 Presidential Debate."

TV, Consider this ... with Cathy Wyatt. (March 3, 2016). Only guest to discuss the Republican primary, half an hour.

TV, Consider this ... with Cathy Wyatt. (January 28, 2016). One of three panelists to discuss the rise of Donald Trump in the Republican primary.

TV, Consider this ... with Cathy Wyatt. (January 19, 2012). Sole guest on half hour show.

TV, UNO-TV. (November 8, 2011). Discussed the upcoming 2012 Presidential and Nebraska Senate elections.

TV, KETV Channel 7, ABC news affiliate. (November 11, 2012). guest on the Chronicle show, 10 a.m., interviewed about the 2012 election results.

TV, KETV ABC afflilate program, "Chronicle". (December 16, 2018). I was a guest for a segment. The topic of the show was civility in politics, and Nebraska Sen. Den Sasse had just written a book on the topic.

TV, KETV ABC affiliate. (November 7, 2018). The morning after live election analysis at 6:40 a.m.

Radio, Crash Davis show. (November 5, 2012). KFBK 1110 AM with Crash Davis discussing random sample surveys and the 2012 Presidential election.

Radio, Crash Davis show. (March 27, 2012). Nebraska’s voter identification law.

TV, Fox 42 KTPM. (April 2, 2012). “Douglas County Dems: Reopen Polling Places in November.”

Non-academic Publications

(1)2022. “How do you Persuade Trump Supporters to Oppose the ‘Big Lie’?” The Monkey Cage, Washington Post. June 14. With John E. Transue, Manuel Gutierrez and E.J. Graff.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/14/jan-6-stolen-election-republicans-trump-patriots/

(2)2012. “Chabot vs. Driehaus in Ohio’s First Congressional District: The Rematch in the City of Seven Hills.” With Randall E. Adkins. In Cases in Congressional Campaigns: Riding the Wave, Second Edition, eds. Randall E. Adkins and David A. Dulio, New York and London: Routledge.

External Grant Applications: Funded

April 2022. “A Proposed Study of How Intersectional Politician Categories Affect how Anger Expressions are Perceived and Evaluated.” Spring Centennial Center Research Grant of the American Political Science Association; $2,500.

Service to the Discipline

August 2022. American Political Science Association, reviewed 25 Ph.D. improvement grant applications (each 20 pages). The process included two, day-long Zoom meetings.

March 2022. The Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) organized a day for social scientists to lobby Members of Congress for increased federal social science funding. I attended a training webinar on March 24, 2022. Then I met with staff from Senator Sasse’s and Fischer’s offices on March 29, and each meeting was an hour. I would have also met with staff from my U.S. House representative, but he had just been convicted of a felony.

October 2021. American Political Science Association, Religion and Politics Section, reviewed eight applications for their small research grant program.

September 2020. American Political Science Association, Religion and Politics Section, reviewed seven applications for their small research grant program.

February-May 2016. Sam Houston State Univ. Political Science Dept. The political science department brought me and a political science colleague from Texas to write an external review report of their Political Science Master's Degree program.

Journal manuscript reviewer. Since fall 2011, I have reviewed manuscripts for these journals: American Political Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; Political Behavior; Political Psychology; Politics, Groups and Identities; Journal of Racial and Ethnic Politics; American Politics Research; The Social Science Journal; Journal of Social and Political Psychology; Electoral Studies; PS: Political Science and Politics; Politics and Religion; and, Political Research Quarterly

References

Randy Adkins, Ph.D. Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Science

Political Science Professor

University of Nebraska Omaha

6001 Dodge St. Omaha, NE 68182

402-***-****

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Paul Landow, PhD, retired Associate Professor of Political Science

University of Nebraska Omaha

Former chief of staff to Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey (mayor, 2001-09)

225 North 12th Street

Omaha, NE 68102