Faculty members nominate candidates each year.
Krutz taught an upper division course in Fall 1998 and received high marks from student evaluations. He served as the president of the Political Science Graduate Student Organization and on the department's Graduate Program Committee. Krutz also served on the Dean's Strategic Planning Group in the College of Liberal Arts and as a focus group leader for Alliance for Minority Participation, a program that encourages minority participation in doctoral programs. Krutz will begin in a tenure-track position at Arizona State University this fall.