Peter John Bergerson, Ph.D.

Professor, Division of Public Affairs

Florida Gulf Coast University

10501 FGCU Boulevard South

AB-III, Rm 250

Fort Myers, Florida 33965

E-mail: pbergers@fgcu.edu

239-590-7813 (Office)

239-590-7842 (Fax)

 

Dr. Bergerson is a Professor of Public Affairs in the Division of Public Affairs at Florida Gulf Coast University. Prior to that, he was the Chairperson and a professor at Southeast Missouri State University in the Department of Political Science. Other current occupations include being the Executive Director of “Going Public,” a weekly radio show on KRCU, National Public Radio for Southeast Missouri, and the Executive Producer of “Public Forum,” a monthly television show for the cable television system in the Cape Girardeau-Jackson, Missouri area.

 

Dr. Bergerson is also the co-author of “Faculty Compensation Systems: Impacts on the Quality of Higher Education,” the author of “Teaching Public Policy: Theory, Research and Practice,” and “Ethics and Public Policy: An Annotated Bibliography.”

 

He holds a B.S. in Political Science and Secondary Education from Indiana State University, a M.S. in Public Administration and American Government from Indiana State University, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Saint Louis University where he completed his dissertation on “The Diffusion of a Judicial Innovation Among the American States: A Case Study of the Non‑Partisan Court Plan.”

 

Please click here to view Dr. Bergerson’s Curriculum Vitae.