Christopher Lawrence
Professor Of Political Science at Debian
Macon, Georgia, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolChristopher Lawrence is a seasoned political scientist and academic leader with 26 years of experience blending teaching, research, and departmental management at Middle Georgia State University, where he currently serves as Professor of Political Science. He has extensive administrative experience as a former department chair and assistant chair, overseeing hiring, curriculum design, assessment, budgeting, and strategic planning while maintaining an active research and advising portfolio. Trained with a Ph.D. in political science (American politics and political methodology) from the University of Mississippi, he brings methodological rigor to both scholarship and pedagogy. Uncommonly for a senior academic, he also contributes to open-source software—working as a front-end developer on the popular reveal.js presentation framework—illustrating a practical technical fluency that complements his humanities background. Based in Macon, Georgia, he combines deep regional service with a national academic footprint across multiple universities.
26 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Political Science (American politics and political methodology), Ph.D., Political Science (American politics and political methodology) at University of MississippiBachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science and Government at The University of MemphisFarmor's SchoolGovernment, Mathematics, Government, Mathematics at Georgetown UniversityMathematics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
French, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
representations10
javascript10
slideshow10
slide10
css9
html8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hakimel/reveal.js
Jun 2013 - Oct 2015
The HTML Presentation Framework
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily worked on improving the core functionality and presentation of the reveal.js framework. Their contributions involved modifying the `reveal.js` file, focusing on slide transitions and embedded content handling. The user also merged updates from the upstream master branch and updated CSS files, enhancing the framework's visual aspects and performance. Their work included updating several files to improve overall functionality.
presentationrevealjsslideframeworkpresentation-framework
lordsutch/comparative-slides
Jul 2016 - Aug 2024
Contributions:79 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.