Professor Marcus D. Pohlmann did his undergraduate work at Cornell College and his graduate work at Columbia University. He has taught at Rhodes College since 1986, coached the college’s highly competitive intercollegiate mock trial team, and chaired the Department of Political Science for 16 years. He currently teaches courses on Constitutional Law, Trial Procedures, United States Politics, and African-American Politics. His current research project is a school reform analysis of the Memphis City Schools. He is the author of several books (listed below).
M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D., Columbia University
B.A., Cornell College
Interdepartmental 263 - MOCK TRIAL PARTICIPATION
Political Science 151 - UNITED STATES POLITICS
Political Science 230 - BLACK POLITICS
Political Science 262 - TRIAL PROCEDURES
Political Science 301 - CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & POLITICS
Political Science 450 - WASHINGTON SEMESTER
Political Science 460 - PUBLIC AFFAIRS INTERNSHIP
Political Science 495 - HONORS TUTORIAL
Where Have You Gone Horatio Alger?: A Convergence of Race and Poverty in the Memphis City Schools (University of Tennessee Press, 2008)
Black Politics in Conservative America (Sloan Publishing, 2007, Longman Publishers, 1990, 1999)
African American Political Thought, 6 volumes (Routledge Press, 2003)
Landmark Congressional Laws on Civil Rights (Greenwood Press, 2002)
Racial Politics at the Crossroads (University of Tennessee Press, 1996)
Governing the Postindustrial City (Longman Publishers, 1992)
Political Power in the Postindustrial City (Stonehill Press, 1986)