Dr. Steffen Walter Schmidt is a political scientist of Colombian origin.
Schmidt is of German and Jewish ancestry and was born in Colombia. He attended Rollins College and graduated from Columbia University with a doctorate in public law and government. Before beginning his career as a faculty member at Iowa State University in 1970, he taught at Southampton College.
He joined Phi Kappa Phi in 1997, was named the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ director of international programs in 2004, and was named the first Lucken Professor of Political Science in 2017.
