Victor B Eno
- victor.eno@famu.edu
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ISS 6305E Research Methods • Online (Fall)
PAD 5025E Public Management • Online (Spring)
POS 4703 Scope and Methods of Political Science • Tu. Th.— 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. (Fall & Spring)
POS 2112E American State and Local Government • Online (Fall)
POS 2112 American State and Local Government • Mo. We. Fri — 12:20 p.m. -1:10 p.m.(Fall)
Dr. Victor Eno is associate professor of political science in the Department of History
& Political Science at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), where
he teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in political science,
public administration and public policy and international relations. Dr. Eno’s array
of research interests includes health policy and politics with a focus on minority
populations’ access to healthcare; public policy implementation; scholarship of teaching
and learning; international and African development - population health, governance,
democratization, etc.
His publications, including journal articles and book chapters, have appeared in Public Administration and Management, Journal of Law and Social Sciences, SAGE Open,
Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy and Governance, PS: Political
Science & Politics, among others. He serves as Faculty Research Mentor in the university’s Undergraduate
Rattler Research (URR) program where he mentors political science majors to enhance
their research output, among other efforts to support student learning and civic engagement.
Dr. Eno has considerable international experience. He has taught at college level
in Nigeria. He has volunteered in international projects including as a management
trainer for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-Florida
A&M University Farmer-to-Farmer program in South Africa. He has provided performance
evaluation services to federal agencies, including USAID, U.S. State Department, and
International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, that require
not only skills in personnel performance evaluation but also international experience
and perspective.
- Health policy and politics
- Public sector governance and policy implementation
- Scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL)
- International development
- Howard University • 2008
Ph.D. in Political Science - University of Lagos, Nigeria • 1990
M.S. in Political Science w/a concentration in Public Administration - University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria • 1987
B.S. in Political and Administrative Studies
- Associate Professor • 2017–Present
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL - Assistant Professor • 2011–2017
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL - Visiting Assistant Professor • 2008–2011
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL - Assistant Lecturer + Lecturer II • 1991 - 2002
University of Uyo, Nigeria - Assistant Lecturer • 1989 - 1990
Federal College of Education (Technical), Gombe, Nigeria
PUBLICATIONS
- (2021) Victor Eno and Keith Simmonds. 2021. Grenada and U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Caribbean
Region in the 21st Century: A Retrospective Appraisal of the 1983 Invasion. In Journal
of Interdisciplinary Sciences, Volume 5, Issue 2; 70-82, November 2021.
- (2021) The African Brain Drain: Evaluating the Political and Governance Imperatives for Reversing the Drain. In Raphael, Dennis, Kapalanga, Joachim and Meunier, Yann (Eds.). 2021. Perspectives on International Research on Science in Africa, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- (2019) Owens, Katharine A., Victor Eno, Jocelyn Abrams, and Danielle Bedney. “Comic-Con:
Can Comics of the Constitution Enable Meaningful Learning in Political Science?” PS:
Political Science & Politics 53(1) 161–166. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096519001008
- (2019) Improving Student Engagement in Political Science courses through Application of
Active Learning and Digital Learning Technologies. In: Blankenship, Rebecca J., &
Baker, C. (Eds.). (2019). Cases on Digital Learning and Teaching Transformations in
Higher Education. Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design, 113-134.
Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9331-7.
- (2019) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Education of Marginalized Populations. In: Blankenship, Rebecca J. (Ed.). Critical Essays on the New Moral Imperative for Supporting Marginalized Students in PK-20 Education, 60-76. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7787-4.ch003
- (2016) Victor Eno, Senthilkumar Mehalingam, and Thomas Nathaniel. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Utilization of Preventive Health Care Services. In SAGE Open, January-March 2016: 1–13, doi: 10.1177/2158244016636183.
Conferences
- “Climate Change and Food Security in the Global South: A Critical Examination of National
Action and International Assistance for Mitigating the Food Crisis in the West African
Subregion”. Paper presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Association of Global
South Studies (AGSS), Cambridge Suites Hotel, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October
9th–11th, 2022.
- “Financial and human resources constraints on basic health service delivery in Nigeria:
case study of two local communities in Akwa Ibom State—Uruan and Etinan” Paper presented
at Florida Summit on Health in Africa held at University of Florida, Gainesville,
October 19, 2015
- “Employment status and effect on health insurance coverage of minority population
groups in the United States” paper presented at SECoPA 2015: The Southeastern Conference
for Public Administration, Charleston, South Carolina, September 30-October 3, 2015.
Also served as chair of the “Health Policy and Administration” panel at the SECoPA
2015 conference.
- “The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Utilization of Preventive Health Care Services by African Americans in the Tallahassee-Leon County area in northwest Florida” Paper presented at SECoPA 2014: The Southeastern Conference for Public Administration, Atlanta, Georgia, September 17th–20th, 2014.
TRAININGs
- Workshop Trainer/Presenter for Federal Public Defender’s Capital Habeas Unit (CHU)
Staff and Clients, Office of Federal Public Defender, U.S. District Court, Northern
District of Florida, Tallahassee, February 25, 2022.
- Workshop Leader/Main Instructor: “Redesigning Research Methods Taught to Undergraduate
Students at Al-Quds University”, Al-Quds University, east Jerusalem, December 15-18,
2019.
- Volunteer and management trainer. United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-Florida A&M University Farmer-to-Farmer program in South Africa, May 17-June 2, 2012. Provided business professional development and leadership/management capacity building for junior and senior level farmers and supervisors at Lushof Fruit (Pty) Ltd., in Saron, Western Cape Province.
- Lead Faculty/Facilitator, Palestinian American Youth Civic Engagement (PAYCE) Grant under the Stevens Initiative, with Daniel Terris (Principal Investigator) Al-Quds and Brandeis Universities; Mostafa Elostaz, Al Quds University-Bard College; Stephen Pimpare, University of New Hampshire; Darcie Vandegrift, Drake University; Katherine Owens, University of Hartford; and Mohammed Sawalha, An-Najah National University. ($700,000, 2017-2018). The Stevens Initiative is sponsored by the U.S. State Department and administered by the Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C. It is a multilateral public-private partnership designed to increase people-to-people exchange between youth in the United States and the Middle East and North Africa as a lasting tribute to the legacy of late Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
- Selected as one of fifteen inaugural ENACT [Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation] Fellows nationally, to develop a course where students research legislation and advocate for policy change at the state level. ($3,000 in classroom support, 2016).
- CeDAR (Center for Disability Access and Resources, FAMU) Pacesetter Award. 2023.
- Certificate in Effective Instruction, Association of College and University Educators
(ACUE). 2022
- Planning & Implementing Effective Teaching Strategies (PIETS) Certificate, FAMU Teaching and Learning Center (TLC). 2021.
- Quality Enhancement Program (QEP), FAMU, Writing Enhanced Course (WEC) Certificate.
- FAMU Provost’s Digital Learning Initiative (DLI) Fellowship. 2017.
- Stevens Initiative Grant. 2017-2018.
UNDERGRADUATE
- POS 2001 Introduction to Political Science
- POS 2041 American National Government
- POS 2112 American State and Local Government
- POS 3603 American Constitutional Law
- POS 4703 Scope and Methods of Political Science
- POS 4936 Seminar in Political Science
- CPO 2002 Comparative Government
- INR 3503 Model United Nations
- PAD 3003 Public Administration
- PAD 4024 Administrative Theory and Problems
- PAD 4223 Budget and Fiscal Management
GRADUATE
- PAD 5025 Public Management
- PAD 5417 Problems of Public Personnel Administration.
- ISS 5316 Advanced Application of Statistics and Research
- ISS 6305 Research Methods
