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Staff
Dr.
Scott H. Huffmon – Director, Social & Behavioral Research Laboratory
huffmons@winthrop.edu
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/huffmons/
 Dr. Scott Huffmon is the founder and director
of the Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory at Winthrop University as
well as an associate professor of political science. In this capacity, he
oversees every aspect of lab projects including questionnaire construction,
programming of all surveying software including the CATI system,
determining sampling frames, establishing appropriate survey methodology,
overseeing interviewer training and supervision, establishing protocols for
data collection, and conducting data analysis. In reference to this last
duty, Huffmon’s secondary field for his Ph.D was quantitative methodology. Additional
quantitative training came as a Summer Program Scholar at the
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan where his studies focused
on maximum likelihood analysis and scaling and dimensional analysis.
Several of his quantitatively-oriented publications utilize survey data.
Huffmon has more than a decade and a half of experience in the
field of survey research, beginning with his tenure as a research associate
with the Social Science Research Laboratory at the University of Mississippi.
In this capacity, he aided in the design, creation, implementation and
analysis of telephone and mail surveys. He also helped pursue contracts and
was a programmer and trouble shooter for the lab CATI (Computer Aided
Telephone Interviewing) system. Additionally, he was responsible for
coauthoring final reports for the lab projects.
Dr. Huffmon is currently teaching
Southern Politics (and other courses) at the University
of Debrecen in Hungary as
a Fulbright Scholar during the Fall 2009 semester. He oversees the SBRL with the help of
Acting Director, Dr. Adolphus Belk.
Dr. Adolphus G. Belk, Jr.– Acting
Director, Social & Behavioral Research Laboratory
belka@winthrop.edu 
A
political science and African American studies professor at Winthrop University,
Dr. Adolphus G. Belk's research and teaching
interests include American government and politics, African American
politics, the politics of race and class in the United States, mass
incarceration and the prison-industrial complex, crime control and
anti-drug policy, and social welfare policy. Belk's research has been
published in The Journal of Race and Policy and by the Joint Center of
Political and Economic Studies. He is currently working on a book-length
manuscript analyzing the politics of the American prison-industrial
complex. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Belk earned his Ph.D. in Government and
Politics at the University of Maryland, College
Park, where he was also a research associate for
the University's African American Leadership Institute. Belk is a member of
the American Political Science Association and the National Conference of
Black Political Scientists.
Lane Lovegrove –
Operations Manager, Social
& Behavioral Research Laboratory
lovegrovel@winthrop.edu
 Lane Lovegrove
has been involved with survey research for the past three years working on
projects for York, Greenwood,
and Anderson
counties and also co-programmed the Winthrop Poll with S.B.R.L. director
Scott Huffmon, Ph.D., political science.
Lovegrove is a William J. Blough
award winner for undergraduate research in International Political
Economics and has been published in the Winthrop University College of Arts
and Sciences Book of Abstracts 2006 for Neo-Colonial Assimilados:
Understanding Neo-Imperialism and Structural Adjustment Through a Practical
Examination of Contemporary Mozambique. He provided research for “School
Board Elections, Desegregation, & Black Political Representation: A
study of South Carolina School Boards” as an assistant researcher for Karen
Kedrowski, Ph.D. and Stephen S. Smith, Ph.D.,
Department of Political Science. He holds an associate’s degree from Spartanburg Methodist
College and a bachelor’s degree
from Winthrop
University.
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