Rate My Professor Kristin Bremer

Kristin Bremer is a professor in the Political Science program at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, affiliated with the Department of Philosophy and Government. She holds a B.A. from Chestnut Hill College, an M.A. from SUNY-Binghamton, and a Ph.D. from SUNY-Binghamton. Bremer served as chair of the Political Science department for six years, stepping down in fall 2014 when Dr. Steve B. Lem was appointed to the position. The department merged with Philosophy effective January 3, 2022, to form the Department of Philosophy and Government, with Dr. Lem as chair through May 2023. Bremer has been involved in teaching courses such as POLI 201 Empirical Political Analysis and has led programs including the KU London Program. She maintains an active presence in department events and hosted aspects of the 83rd annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association on April 1, 2022, at Kutztown University.

Bremer's scholarly contributions include serving as a principal investigator for the Kenya Democratization Survey Project in 2006, conducted from May 29 to July 4, which assessed Kenyan citizens' attitudes toward constitutional reform, the government under President Mwai Kibaki, trust in institutions, economic conditions, and democratization processes across seven provinces using stratified cluster sampling modeled after the Afrobarometer. Funded by Kutztown University and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, the project provided data distributed by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. She authored a book review titled 'Social Capital and Democratisation: Roots of Trust in Post-Communist Poland and Ukraine' by Martin Åberg and Mikael Sandberg, published in Slavic Review, Volume 63, Issue 3, in 2004. Additionally, Bremer presented 'The Judo of Putin' at the Pennsylvania Political Science Association's 2022 conference, alongside Dr. Allan Bäck, with over 100 attendees and nearly 20 research sessions. Her work reflects engagement in comparative politics and public administration.