Jasper Sumner
Lecturer
Phone number: 317-278 0694
Office number: CA 504F

Jasper Sumner joined the Department of Political Science in 2006.  He primarily teaches political theory, comparative politics, and occasional courses in Marxist theory and Russian politics. His research interests include the role of ideas in political economy and the welfare state, political culture, identity politics, and European politics.  Jasper has presented professional papers at national conferences such as the Midwest Political Science Association and the Southwestern Social Science Association. He serves as executive producer and regular panelist on the department’s international affairs TV program Consider This.  Jasper's master’s thesis examined the parallel movements in contemporary conceptions of the self, and welfare reform discourse in the United Kingdom and United States.  He was awarded the V. Stanley Vardy’s Award for outstanding research and writing at the doctoral level for his recently published article The Social Construction of Globalization: How the Blair Government Reformed the British Welfare State.

Jasper received a Bachelor of Arts With Distinction in Political Science from IUPUI in 1999.  He received a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Oklahoma in 2004. 

Jasper was a research fellow at the European Union Center at the University of Oklahoma from 2002 to 2004.  Among many other things, he serves on the secretariat for the annual Midwest Model European Union, held on campus every April.

Jasper lives in the Blue River Valley with his wife Natalie and their daughter Geneva.

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