Books by deceased faculty...

The faculty who were the foundation of the department made significant contributions to the discipline. In the first half of the twentieth-century, faculty were more likely to do research in several fields, rather than being highly specialized as faculty are today. Departmental professors also worked together on several books.

Major John Alley was the first head of the Department of Government in 1911 and served for thirty-three years in that position. (The department was known as the Department of Government until 1966.)

Dick Baker was an expert on the Middle East before that area of the world was the topic of every day's news.

Oliver Benson was a pioneer in the field of quantitative methods, doing ground-breaking work in the 1960s.

Royden Dangerfield wrote across several fields, including elections, world government, political parties, and economic warfare.

John Paul Duncan had an eclectic bibliography, writing on such esoteric subjects as the city government of Indianapolis and the political philosophy of the British Idealist Elijah Jordan.

Cortez A. M. Ewing produced a prodigious amount of research ranging from Southern politics to historical works on Congressional and Presidential elections and the judges of the Supreme Court.

Rufus Hall's area of expertise was American government. He wrote a text that was reissed in several editions from its initial publication in 1957.

John Halvor Leek's name is associated with his singular generosity in leaving his estate to the department to fund scholarships. However, he wrote on government and labor and American government, and produced a legislative reference study from a comparative perspective in 1925.

Joseph Crim Pray wrote on Oklahoma government. He is best remembered for his firm stance on academic freedom, even testifying before the Oklahoma State Legislature during the McCarthy period in the early 1950s.

H. V. Thorton wrote on Oklahoma government as well, including Oklahoma municipal government.

V. Stanley Vardys earned a national reputation as an expert on the former Baltic States, especially his native Lithuania.