Philip A. Schrodt received his M.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University in 1977. Prior to coming to the University of Kansas in 1988, he taught for 11 years at Northwestern University in Illinois.

Dr. Schrodt's major areas of research are formal models of political behavior, with an emphasis on international politics, and political methodology. Dr. Schrodt taught a variety of courses in international relations with an emphasis on international conflict and U.S. defense policy. He has published more than 75 articles in political science, and his Kansas Event Data System (KEDS) computer program won the "Outstanding Computer Software Award" from the American Political Science Association in 1995.

Schrodt has also taught at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, the American University in Cairo, the University of California at Davis, Bir Zeit University in the West Bank, and spent a year at the University of Lancaster (England) on a NATO Postdoctoral fellowship.