Bradley Phelps’ Biography
My background includes experience working as a technical advisor in a developing nation; training, education and extensive research and analysis focused on governance, policy administration and natural resources management. Since 2007, I have taught American Government as Term Faculty Instructor at John A. Logan College.
For my dissertation research I spent two years in Canada analyzing Canada’s Atlantic cod and Pacific salmon fisheries, examining both the domestic and international dynamics of the political economy surrounding these regimes. In the past I have analyzed coal burning and processing technologies to support the development of coal industry policies for the State of Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources. As a graduate student, I helped instruct organizational theory, introduction to American political science, and environmental policy and natural resources management. I have also instructed teenagers in a youth at risk program and oversaw the training of technical forestry skills to adults. I have worked on a project to develop the methodological framework and program indicators for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to evaluate the effectiveness of their programs in Eastern and Central Europe. Working for the U.S. Forest Service, I developed a methodology to measure the diversity of socioeconomic structure and employment dependency of rural communities adjacent to ten National Forests in Colorado, Idaho, and Oregon. Overseas as a Peace Corps Volunteer, I helped develop a national forest classification system for the Government of Niger (GON) which involved supplying information on vegetation composition and structure necessary to assist the GON, local and international NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), and International Donor Agencies in their forest management planning and governance processes.
