Pete Wielhouwer

Associate Professor

3422 Friedmann Hall
(269) 387-5685

Dr. Peter W. Wielhouwer, Associate Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, and is a nationally-recognized scholar on campaigns and elections, faith and politics, and racial politics.

Between 1995 and 2004 he taught at Spelman College (GA) and Regent University’s School of Government (VA), where he directed the graduate program in campaign management and the nonpartisan Center for Grassroots Politics. From 2004 to 2005 he was speechwriter to the two-star general in charge of coordinating operational experiments for the U.S. military.

Widely published in professional journals (including the Journal of Politics and the American Journal of Political Science) and scholarly books (including "The Oxford Handbook of Religion in American Politics," Oxford U. Press, 2009), he is an occasional political consultant, and regularly speaks on faith and politics and American politics for universities, professional organizations, churches, and faith-based organizations. Locally, you often can hear him interviewed on WKZO and WMUK. He and his wife Deborah home educate six great kids.