17 Facts About John Ishiyama

John Ishiyama is a University Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, and Chairperson of the Department of Political Science.

John Ishiyama is the Piper Professor of Texas at the University of North Texas.

John Ishiyama is a past President of the American Political Science Association.

John Ishiyama has credited his decision to become a political scientist with an early interest in how things change and evolve.

John Ishiyama then pursued an MA at the University of Michigan's Center for Russian and East European Studies, graduating in 1985.

In 1992, John Ishiyama earned a PhD in political science from Michigan State University.

In 1990, John Ishiyama joined the political science faculty at Truman State University, where he remained until 2008.

In 2008, John Ishiyama moved to the University of North Texas.

John Ishiyama was the sole editor of two books: From Bullets to Ballots: The Transformation of Rebel Groups into Political Parties and Communist Successor Parties in Post-Communist Politics, and the coauthor with Marijke Breuning of Ethnopolitics in the New Europe in 1998.

John Ishiyama was the sole author of the 2012 book Comparative Politics: Principles of Democracy and Democratization, which is an introduction to comparative politics that focuses on the question of what conditions promote or hinder democratic development.

John Ishiyama was the Editor-in-Chief of the American Political Science Review from 2012 until 2016.

John Ishiyama was previously the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Political Science Education, which is the journal of the education section of the American Political Science Association, from 2004 until 2012.

In 2018, Ishiyama won the American Political Science Association's Frank Johnson Goodnow Award, which "recognizes outstanding service to the political science community".

That year John Ishiyama received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Political Science section of the American Political Science Association.

John Ishiyama was the American Political Science Association's member of the month in July 2019, and in March 2020 John Ishiyama was the sole nominee for the election to become President of the American Political Science Association in the term that begins in 2021.

In 2020, John Ishiyama was given the Eminent Faculty Award from the University of North Texas Foundation.

John Ishiyama's work has been cited, or he has been quoted, in media outlets like The Washington Post, Vox, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.