Senator Max Wise

Adjunct Professor

Senator Max Wise, Adjunct Professor, currently represents Kentucky’s 16th Senate district in Frankfort. Until recently, he served as an assistant professor of political science at Campbellsville University, where he also served as the lead faculty member for the Homeland Security program. Before coming to Campbellsville University, he worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving first in the counterterrorism division at headquarters in Washington, DC and later with the Louisville Field Office’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center. Wise received his MA from the Patterson School in 1999 and holds a graduate Certificate in Homeland Security from Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service.