Dr. Donald S. Inbody

Contact Info:

Teaching (Summer 2009):

Education:

Ph.D., University of Texas

M.A., Naval War College, Newport, RI

M.A., Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

M.M.E., Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

B.M.E., Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

Specialties:

Civil-Military Relations

American Government

International Relations

Research Interests: Civil-Military Relations,  Political Behavior

Dr. Donald S. Inbody is a Lecturer in Political Science at Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.  After teaching in the Kansas Public Schools for three years and as an Instructor at Kansas Newman College for two years, he entered the United States Navy, retiring as a Captain following nearly 29 years of active service.  In 1996 and 1997 he was the Captain of the USS Duluth, home ported in San Diego and then Chief Staff Officer of Amphibious Squadron Eleven, based in Sasebo, Japan.  In 2001 he was appointed Director of the Joint C4ISR Decision Support Center, an analytic “think tank” in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.  While in the Navy he earned a Master’s degree from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, in 1985, and a second Master’s degree from the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, in 2001.  He entered the graduate school at the University of Texas while serving as the Professor of Naval Science and Commanding Officer of the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Unit at the University.  He taught political science for three years at the United States Naval Academy and the Leadership and Ethics course for three years in the Naval Science and Philosophy Departments at the University of Texas.  He and his wife, Jeannine Inbody, live in Buda, Texas.

 

Curriculum Vitae

1. Inbody, Donald S. "Grand Army of the Republic or Grand Army of the Republicans? Political Party and Ideological Preferences of American Enlisted Personnel" (2009). Faculty Publications-Political Science. Paper 51.
   http://ecommons.txstate.edu/polsfacp/51

2. Inbody, Donald S. “Partisanship and the Military: Voting Patterns of the American Military,” in Derek S. Reveron and Judith Hicks Stiehm, Inside Defense: Understanding the U.S. Military in the 21st Century. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008.

3. Sparrow, Bartholomew and Donald S. Inbody.  Supporting Our Troops? U. S. Civil-Military Relations in the Twenty-first Century.  Prepared for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2005.