(Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1983)
Professor of Political Science
Director, Environmental Studies Program
Professor McCool's research focuses on Indian water rights and voting rights, water resource development, and public lands policy. He is the author of: Native Waters: Contemporary Indian Water Settlements and the Second Treaty Era (2002) and Command of the Waters: Iron Triangles, Federal Water Development, and Indian Water (1994). He co-authored: Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and Indian Voting ( 2007); Staking Out the Terrain: Power and Performance Among Natural Resource Agencies (1996, 2d ed); and Public Policy Theories, Models and Concepts (1995). He edited two books with his students: Waters of Zion: The Politics of Water in Utah (1995) and Contested Landscape: The Politics of Wilderness in Utah and the West (1999). He has served as a consultant for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U. S. Department of Justice, The ACLU's Voting Rights Project, and the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy. He is currently writing a book about the politics of river restoration.