Chadwick F. Alger (Ph.D., Princeton, 1958), Professor Emeritus, has research and teaching interests focusing on multilateral problem solving by international governmental and non-governmental organizations, and the world relations of local communities and organizations. Subjects of research have included decision-making in the UN General Assembly, the role of non-governmental organizations in the struggle for human rights and economic well-being, and the assessment of available “tools” in the quest for peace.  His most recent publication is The United Nations System: A Reference Handbook, 2006.  He is also the author of Internationalization from Local Areas: Beyond Inter-State Relations, and editor of The Future of the United Nations System: Potential for the Twenty-first Century. He has published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Social Science Journal, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Peace Research, Public Opinion, and World Politics. He has been President of the International Studies Association, the International Peace Research Association, and the Consortium for Peace Research, Education and Development, and has received the International Outstanding Faculty Award from Ohio State University. (Phone: 614-292-5945; E-mail: alger.1@osu.edu)

S. M. Amadae (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 1999), Assistant Professor, has research and teaching interests in political theory, with an emphasis on the philosophy of political economy. Her first book, Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism (Chicago, 2003), was awarded the American Political Science Association's J. David Greenstone book award for "History and Politics" in 2004. She has written articles for Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Economics and Philosophy, and the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “The Cold War's Legacy: Prisoner's Dilemma Governmentality.” (Phone: 614-292-9986; E-mail: amadae.1@osu.edu)

William Angel (Ph.D., University of Texas, 1978), Associate Professor, Lima Campus, is an expert in the practical applications of politics. Having chaired the Allen County Democratic Party in the late 1980s, he has written a book recounting his experiences as a practicing politician. Accordingly, Not All Politics Is Local: Reflections of a Former County Chairman (The Kent State University Press, 2002) recounts his political experiences, but it also analyzes the contributions of local parties in the American political system. In addition to having research focus on political parties and grassroots activism, Dr. Angel also has research interests in urban politics, as well as in technology and political life. (Phone: 419-995-8377; E-mail: angel.1@osu.edu)

Herbert B. Asher (Ph.D., Michigan, 1970), Professor Emeritus, has research and teaching interests in mass political behavior and research methods, with particular emphasis on campaigns, elections, and public opinion polling. His secondary interests include legislative politics and the politics and government of Ohio. He is currently working on three books: a text on campaign politics, a book on Ohio politics and government, and an analysis of how social science reasoning and research is used and abused to explain social and political phenomena. He has published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and Political Methodology, and has served as co-editor of the American Journal of Political Science. He is author of Presidential Elections and American Politics; Polling and the Public; co-author of American Labor Unions in the Electoral Arena; Causal Modeling; co-author of Comparative Political Participation; and co-editor of Theory Building and Data Analysis in the Social Sciences. (Phone: 614-292-0803; Email: asher.1@osu.edu)

Lawrence Baum (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1973), Professor, has research and teaching interests in American politics, primarily in judicial politics. The subjects of his research include the determinants of judicial behavior, implementation of judicial decisions, the creation and behavior of specialized courts, and voting behavior in judicial elections.  He is author of Specializing the Courts, Judges and Their Audiences, The Puzzle of Judicial Behavior, The Supreme Court, and American Courts. He has published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. He has been chair of the Law, Courts, and Judicial Process section of the American Political Science Association, and he has served on the editorial boards of several journals.  He has received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and the University Distinguished Scholar Award. (Phone: 614-292-6088; E-mail: baum.4@osu.edu)

Paul Allen Beck (Ph.D., Michigan, 1971) is Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Political Science and of (by courtesy) Communication and of Sociology. His research and teaching interests focus on political parties and voting behavior. His current research, initially funded by the National Science Foundation, focuses on the mass media, interpersonal discussion networks, secondary organizations, and political parties as channels for campaign information in modern democracies, especially the US. He is co-PI of a national survey study of the 2004 electorate and a founding member of the Comparative National Election Project (CNEP), which brings the US into comparison with over a dozen other democracies. His articles have regularly appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, and other leading journals. He is co-author of Party Politics in America (2003) and Electoral Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies (1984) and several other books. His most recent CNEP work appears in Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents (2007). Beck has served in many leadership positions in the discipline – including chair of the American Political Science Association’s Strategic Planning Committee, its Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section, and its annual meeting program; vice president and program chair for the Midwest Political Science Association; and Council Chair for the University Consortium for Political and Social Research. He has received Ohio State University’s 2004 Distinguished Scholar and 2000 Distinguished University Service awards and the American Political Science Association’s 2005 Goodnow and 2007 Eldersveld awards.  (Phone: 614-292-7087; E-mail: beck.9@osu.edu)

Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier (Ph.D., Texas, 1993), Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science, pursues research and teaching interests in American politics (legislative politics, public opinion, and voting behavior) and in methodology (time series, event history, and network analysis). She has published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. She is the author of Event History Modeling: A Guide for Social Scientists, published by Cambridge University Press and is working on a time series book. She is currently working on a Monte Carlo project to evaluate the treatment of heterogeneity in event history models, which is partially funded by the National Science Foundation. Other funded research includes projects on the use of Blue Slips by Senators to oppose court nominations and a web portal for social science methods education. She has twice received the Gosnell Award for the best work in political methodology, Emerging Scholar Award of the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section of the American Political Science Association, and Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor. She is an Inaugural Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology and is the current president of the Midwest Political Science Association. (Phone: 614-292-9642; E-mail: steffensmeier.2@osu.edu)

Rachel E. Bowen (J.D., Georgetown University, 2002; Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2007), Assistant Professor, Mansfield campus, teaches on American and comparative politics, constitutional law, and gender and politics.  She pursues research on the intersection of law and politics with a special focus on Latin America.  Her research focuses on judicial independence and judicial activism, Central American politics, state responses to gendered crime in Latin America, and judicial networks.  She has authored a chapter in the volume Globalizing Justice: Critical Perspectives on Transnational Norms and the Cross-Border Migration of Legal Norms.  (Phone: 419-755-4118; Email: bowen.206@osu.edu)

Bear Braumoeller (Ph.D., Michigan, 1998), Associate Professor, interests include the sources of war and conflict, international relations theory (in particular, systemic theories of international relations), political methodology (tailoring statistical methodology to fit the particular needs of students of world politics), and Russian foreign affairs (especially the relationship between belief systems and foreign policy behavior). His book, The Great Powers and the International System, is being published by Cambridge University Press. His work has been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, International Organization, American Journal of Political Science, and International Organization. (Phone: 614-292-9499; Email: braumoeller.1@polisci.osu.edu)  

Sarah M. Brooks (Ph.D., Duke, 2001), Associate Professor, has research and teaching interests in comparative and international political economy and Latin American politics.  Her research focuses on the relationship between the state and market in the organization of social and economic relations, as well as the consequences of risk and income security for political and economic development.  She is the author of Social Protection and the Market in Latin America: The Transformation of Social Security Institutions, (2009, Cambridge University Press).  She has published articles in The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and Latin American Politics and Society.  She has written or co-authored chapters in edited volumes such as New Ideas about Old Age Security (Stiglitz and Holzmann, eds. 2001), Learning from Foreign Models in Latin American Policy Reform (Weyland, ed. 2004), and Pension Reform: Issues and Prospects for Non-Financial Defined Contribution (NDC) Schemes, (Holzmann and Palmer, eds. 2006). She is on the governing council of the Political Economy section of the American Political Science Association and a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Politics.  Her current research includes a study of civil and economic insecurity in Brazil, the politics of policy diffusion, sovereign risk in emerging markets, and the domestic politics of globalization in developing nations.  (Phone: 614-292-7102; E-mail: brooks.317@osu.edu)

Gregory A. Caldeira (Ph.D., Princeton, 1978), Distinguished University Professor and Ann and Darrell Dreher Chair in Political Communication and Policy Thinking well as Profesessor of Law in the Moritz College of Law, pursues research and teaching in the fields of law and courts and American political institutions. His research on these subjects has appeared in Citizens, Courts, and Confirmations (Princeton, 2009) and in such journals as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, British Journal of Political Science, Law & Society Review, Political Analysis, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Currently he is an Associate Editor of the American Political Science Review. From 1998 through 2001, he was Editor of the American Journal of Political Science (1998-2001) and has served for various periods as a member of the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, Law & Society Review, Political Research Quarterly, Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly; and on the Law and Social Science Panel of the National Science Foundation. He has also been a member of the executive councils of the American Political Science Association and the Midwest Political Science Association; Vice President and President of the Midwest Political Science Association; and Chair of the APSA's Section on Law and Courts). He received Ohio State's Distinguished Scholar Award in 1993 and was named Distinguished University Professor in 1999. Recent and current projects include, inter alia, studies of the impact of the Alito nomination in 2005 on public support for the Supreme Court, public response to the Supreme Court’s decision in Caperton v. Massey (campaign contributions and conflicts of interest), the role of pivotal states in the Electoral College, the impact of organized interests on the formation of the Supreme Court's agenda, public opinion and Court-packing, and newspaper endorsements in presidential elections, 1932-present.  Derby Hall 2041.  (Phone: 614-292-2880; E-mail: caldeira.1@osu.edu)

John R. Champlin (Ph.D., Columbia, 1969), Associate Professor Emeritus, is interested in political theory, broadly construed. Over the years, as one who learns best through teaching, he has paid attention to historical texts of political theory, to philosophical analysis, to philosophy of science as it bears on the study of politics, and to issues of interpretation. He is currently thinking most about theory and practice, particularly through questions about virtue in a variety of political contexts. (Phone: 614-292-3807; E-mail: champlin.1@osu.edu)

Howard M. Federspiel (Ph.D. McGill, 1966), Professor Emeritus, Newark Campus, has research and teaching interests focused on international politics, comparative government and political philosophy. Of late he has turned much of interest in teaching towards classical and contemporary Muslim political philosophy. His subjects of research focus on Islam in the nation-states of Southeast Asia with secondary interest on the broader Islamic world in general.  In particular he has focused on the development of elites among Muslim communities and on political religious-political movements in Indonesia and wider Southeast Asia. He is the author of Islam and Ideology in the Emerging Indonesian State (2001), Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals of the Twentieth Century (2006), and Sultans, Shamans and Scholars: Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia (2006 forthcoming). He has been field director of education development projects in Indonesia--at Medan 1984-86, and at Jakarta 1986-88--and project director of a Canadian-Indonesian Muslim higher education project throughout Indonesia in 1995-2000.  (Phone 740-366-9297; E-mail: federspiel.1@osu.edu)

Richard Gunther (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 1977), Professor, has research interests in Southern Europe, transitions to and consolidation of democracy, electoral behavior, political parties, and comparative political institutions and public policy. He has served as co-chair of the SSRC subcommittee on Southern Europe and as Executive Director of International Studies at Ohio State.  He is currently the international coordinator of the 21-country Comparative National Elections Project.  He is recipient of the Political Science Department's Distinguished Teaching Award, Ohio State University's Distinguished Scholar Award, as well as OSU's Faculty Award for Distinguished University Service.  His publications include: The Politics of Spain (Cambridge University Press, 2009); Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents (Oxford University Press 2007); Democracy and the State in the New Southern Europe (Oxford University Press 2006); Democracy in Modern Spain (Yale University Press, 2004); Political Parties: Old Concepts and New Challenges (Oxford University Press, 2002); Political Parties and Democracy (Johns Hopkins, 2001); Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe (Johns Hopkins, 2001); Democracy and the Media: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2000); The Politics of Democratic Consolidation (Johns Hopkins, 1995); Politics, Society, and Democracy: The Case of Spain (Westview, 1993); Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin American and Southern Europe (Cambridge, 1992); Spain After Franco: The Making of a Competitive Party System (California, 1986); Public Policy in a No-Party State: Spanish Planning and Budgeting in the Twilight of the Franquist Era (California, 1980). He has also published articles in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, and numerous other journals and edited volumes. (Phone: 614-292-6266; E-mail: gunther.1@osu.edu)

Richard K. Herrmann (Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1981), Professor, concentrates on international relations, international security, and political psychology.  He is currently the Director of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. He has written on the role of perception and imagery in foreign policy as well as on the importance of nationalism and identity politics in world affairs. His areas of interests include American foreign policy and the politics of the Middle East and Russia. He has served as a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning staff in Washington D.C., and is the author of Perceptions and Behavior in Soviet Foreign Policy. He has published numerous articles in journals including American Political Science Review, World Politics, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Political Psychology.  From 1989-1994 he served as co-editor of the International Studies Quarterly. (Phone: 614-292-9843; E-mail: herrmann.1@osu.edu)

Ted Hopf (Ph.D., Columbia 1989), Associate Professor, is interested in international relations theory, identity, qualitative methodology, and the former Soviet space. He has written a book on deterrence theory and Soviet foreign policy in the Third World (Peripheral Visions (University of Michigan Press, 1994)) and edited a volume on contemporary Russian foreign policy (Understandings of Russian Foreign Policy (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999)). His latest book, Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999 (Cornell, 2002), applies a social cognitive account of identity to Soviet and Russian foreign policy. An edited volume on Russia’s relations with Europe, Russia’s European Choice, came out with Palgrave in 2008. His current book project, “Reconstructing the Cold War,” will be a social constructivist account of the Cold War from 1945-1991. Other publications have appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Security, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies and Security Studies. (Phone: 614-292-3392; E-mail: hopf.2@osu.edu)

Kate Ivanova (Ph.D., USC, 2006), Assistant Professor, Newark Campus, has research and teaching interests in international political economy, terrorism and methodology (formal modeling and statistical analysis). Current research focuses on illegal trade in small arms and light weapons. Other projects examine compliance with international agreements and terrorist incidents that involve chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear materials. She has published in Terrorism and Political Violence, Environmental and Resource Economics, Foreign Policy Analysis and Oxford Economic Papers. (Phone: 740-364-9623; E-mail: ivanova.6@osu.edu)

John H. Kessel (Ph.D., Columbia, 1958), Professor Emeritus, is a generalist in American politics. In recent years, his research has focused on the presidency and political parties. His books include The Goldwater Coalition, The Domestic Presidency, Presidential Campaign Politics, and Presidential Parties. His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, and other journals. He has been editor of the American Journal of Political Science, and president of the Midwest Political Science Association. (Phone: 614-292-3807; E-mail: kessel.1@osu.edu)

Marcus Kurtz (Ph.D., UC, Berkeley, 1996), Associate Professor, has research and teaching interests in the areas of comparative politics, democratization, state-building, and the political economy of development, with a focus on Latin America.  His publications have appeared in such journals as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, World Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Politics & Society, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and Theory and Society.  His book, entitled Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside is available at Cambridge University Press.  He is currently writing a book, Social Foundations of Institutional Order, that examines the historical origins of differing Latin American state-building trajectories. His other ongoing research examines the causes and consequences of differing strategies of international economic integration in Latin America, the role of the state in economic development, the relationship between governance and economic development, as well as the effects of free market developmental strategies on the problem of democratic consolidation. (Phone: 614-292-0952; E-mail: kurtz.61@osu.edu)

R. William Liddle (Ph.D., Yale, 1967), Professor, specializes in Indonesian, Islamic, and developing world politics. He is currently conducting research on Indonesian voting behavior and developing a theory of political action or agency. His publications include Ethnicity, Party, and National Integration; Politics and Culture in Indonesia; Political Entrepreneurs and Development Strategies: Southeast Asian Cases and Comparisons; and Leadership and Culture in Indonesian Politics, plus articles in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly, World Development, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Asian Studies, Pacific Affairs, Government & Opposition, Asian Survey, and other scholarly journals. He has been chair of the Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, and Southeast Asia editor of the Association’s Journal of Asian Studies.  He lectures frequently at the U. S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute and has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development. (Phone: 614-292-7957; E-mail: liddle.2@osu.edu)

Eric MacGilvray (Ph.D., Chicago, 1999), Associate Professor, has research and teaching interests which center in modern and contemporary political thought, with an emphasis on liberal, republican and democratic theory and the pragmatic philosophical tradition. His first book, Reconstructing Public Reason (Harvard University Press, 2004), draws on the pragmatic theory of justification to explore the problem of political legitimacy in pluralistic societies. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, The Good Society and a number of other journals. His second book, The Invention of Market Freedom, is being published by Cambridge University Press. He is co-leader of the Democratic Governance focus group in the OSU Center for Ethics and Human Values. (Phone: 614-292-3710; E-mail: macgilvray.2@polisci.osu.edu)

Corrine McConnaughy (Ph.D., Michigan, 2004), Assistant Professor, principal research interests are in identity politics, focusing primarily on the roles race and gender play in American politics, and in the development of political institutions.  She is completing a book on the partisan politics of state decisions to expand voting rights to women.  Other current research projects include a study of the role of gender identity in shaping the gender gap, an investigation of political interest in legislative redistricting commissions, and a project on the development of state legislatures, centering on the representation of urban interests and the rise of professional practice.  Professor McConnaughy also has research and teaching interests in methodology, particularly in the design of social science research for causal inference. (Phone: 614-292-9658; Email: mcconnaughy.3@polisci.osu.edu)

Kathleen M. McGraw (Ph.D., Northwestern, 1985), Professor and Associate Dean, Social and Behavioral Sciences, has been a member of the Ohio State University faculty since 1988. She earned her B.A. from Cleveland State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Northwestern University. She received the 1994 Erik Erikson Award for Early Career Achievement in Political Psychology. She has served on a number of editorial boards, including The American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. She is a member of the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Study. She has published widely in political science and social psychology journals and edited volumes. She has research and teaching interests in political psychology, public opinion, and experimental methodology. Her current research focuses on cognitive processes in political judgment; individual and institutional accountability; and foreign policy beliefs.   (Phone: 614-292-3913; E-mail: mcgraw.36@osu.edu)

William Minozzi (Ph.D., Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 2006), Assistant Professor, studies the intersection of preferences, beliefs, and communication, with a focus on the consequences for politics and policy. Some of his current research projects focus on the strategic deployment of expert information by elites; learning and the roles of party reputations and issue salience in campaign strategy; and the dynamics of responsiveness to party pressure in Congress. After graduating from Stanford, Prof. Minozzi spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University before coming to Ohio State in 2007. His work is forthcoming in the Journal of Politics and Legislative Studies Quarterly.  (Phone: 614-247-7017; Email: minozzi.1@osu.edu)

Jennifer Mitzen (Ph.D., Chicago, 2001), Assistant Professor, has research and teaching interests in IR theory, global governance, and post-conflict reconciliation.  She is completing a book manuscript on the impact of publicity and deliberation on great power politics, with particular attention to the evolution of conference diplomacy in 19th century Europe; and has published on that research in the American Political Science Review.  Other research, published in European Journal of International Relations and Journal of European Public Policy, includes the impact of needs for ontological security on international politics and the impact of Europe's Common Foreign and Security Policy on its identity as a 'civilizing power.’  (Phone: 614-292-7400; E-mail: mitzen.1@polisci.osu.edu)

John Mueller (Ph.D., UCLA, 1965), Professor and Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, pursues research and teaching interests in international relations, public opinion, post-Communism, terrorism, national security policy, and diplomatic and military history.  Among his books are War, Presidents, and Public Opinion; Retreat From Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War; Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War; Astaire Dancing: The Musical Films; Quiet Cataclysm: Reflections on the Recent Transformation of World Politics; Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph’s Pretty Good Grocery; The Remnants of War (awarded the Joseph Lepgold Prize for the best book on international relations in 2004), and Overblown which deals with terrorism and threat exaggeration in international relations. His latest book, Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda, was published in 2010, and his books, War and Ideas and (co-written with Mark Stewart), Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Costs, and Benefits of Homeland Security, will be published in 2011. He has published articles in such journals as American Political Science Review, International Security, American Journal of Political Science, Foreign Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Reason, National Interest, and New Republic, as well as op-ed pieces in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and has received the International Studies Association’s Susan Strange Award as well as several teaching awards. (Phone: 614-247-6007; E-mail: bbbb@osu.edu)

Anthony Mughan (Ph.D., Iowa, 1975), Professor, has research interests in political parties, the mass media, and elections and political behavior.  He is the author of several books, including most recently Media and the Presidentialization of Parliamentary Elections.  He is also co-editor of Political Leadership in Democratic Societies; Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary World and Democracy and the Media: A Comparative Perspective.  He has served on several editorial boards and has published in many leading journals, including the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and Public Opinion Quarterly. His current research projects examine the nature of leader effects in parliamentary elections and the structure of anti-immigrant prejudice and its relationship to both globalization and support for right-wing populist parties.  He is director of the university’s Undergraduate International Studies Program.  (Phone: 614-292-7838; E-mail: mughan.1@osu.edu)

Michael Neblo (Ph.D., Chicago, 2000), Assistant Professor, has research and teaching interests in democratic theory, political psychology, political sociology, and how these fields relate to each other. His book manuscript, Common Voices: Between the Theory & Practice of Deliberative Democracy, cuts across the deadlock between supporters of deliberative theory and their empirical critics by focusing on the core goals of the larger deliberative political system. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in a wide range of academic journals, including The American Political Science Review, The Journal of Political Philosophy, Political Behavior, Political Research Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, Political Communication, Acta Politica, The Journal of Medicine & Law, Social Science & Medicine, as well as in other journals and edited volumes. His current projects focus on the politics of immigration, the mechanisms of deliberative opinion change, the problem of sincerity in liberal theory, and narratives of identity in post-war political novels.   (Phone: 614-292-7839; E-mail: neblo.1@osu.edu)

Thomas E. Nelson (Ph.D. in Psychology, Michigan, 1992), Associate Professor, focuses on political psychology and American politics. His research interests include the effect of political communication on attitude formation and change, social stereotypes and intergroup relations, and social-cognitive approaches to public opinion. He teaches experimental methods and questionnaire design. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Journal of Politics. He is the winner of the 2002 Erik Erikson award for early career achievement from the International Society for Political Psychology. (Phone: 614-292-6408; E-mail: nelson.179@osu.edu)

William E. Nelson, Jr. (Ph.D., Illinois, 1971), Professor Emeritus, has research and teaching interests in American politics. The focus of his research is on urban politics, ethnic politics, Black politics, comparative urban studies, public policy, and electoral mobilization. He is the co-author of Electing Black Mayors: Political Action in the Black Community, the author of Black Atlantic Politics: Dilemmas of Political Empowerment in Boston and Liverpool (winner of the best book award presented by the Race and Ethnic Politics Section of the American Political Science Association) and co-editor of Black and Latino/ Latina Politics: Issues in Political Development in the United States. His articles have appeared in the National Political Science Review, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Public Administration Review, the Annals of the Academy of Social and Political Science, Review of Black Political Economy, and other scholarly publications. Currently he is engaged in comparative research on the political socialization of Caribbean immigrants in Toronto and New York. He is also conducting field research on Black mayoral leadership, Hurricane Katrina, and the reconstruction of New Orleans. He has served as president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, president of the African Heritage Studies Association, chair of the National Council for Black Studies, vice-president of the American Political Science Association, and chair of the Department of Black Studies at Ohio State.  His professional awards include a Fulbright Research Fellowship, Lifetime Achievement Award by the Committee on the Status of Blacks of the American Political Science Association, an Ohio State University Success Stories Teaching Award, and an Ohio State University Distinguished Affirmative Action Award. (Phone: 614 292-0453; E-mail: nelson.18@osu.edu)

Irfan Nooruddin (Ph.D., Michigan, 2003), Associate Professor, has research and teaching interests in comparative politics, political economy of development, and political parties. His research has been published in multiple venues. His book Coalition Politics and Economic Development is being published by Cambridge University Press. Current projects include research on governance in India, post-conflict recovery, globalization and international financial institutions, and immigration attitudes.  (Phone: 614-292-7830; E-mail: nooruddin.3@osu.edu)

Samuel C. Patterson (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1959), Professor Emeritus, specializes in political institutions and leadership behavior, focusing upon legislative or parliamentary politics. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and American Politics Quarterly. He is an author and editor of a number of books, including The Legislative Process in the United States (4th ed., 1986); Representatives and Represented (1975); Comparing Legislatures (1979); Handbook of Legislative Research (1985); Political Leadership in Democratic Societies (1991); Parliaments in the Modern World (1994) and Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary World (1999). The Handbook of Legislative Research (ed. with Gerhard Loewenberg and Malcolm E. Jewell) won the 1985 Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize of the American Political Science Association for the best book published in legislative studies. In 1984-85 he was a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 1990 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award from Ohio State. From 1985-91 he served as managing editor of the American Political Science Review. During 1993-94 he was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA. In 1996, he was Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2000, he received the APSA's Frank J. Goodnow Award for Distinguished Service. He was General Advisory Editor of the Parliaments & Legislatures series of Ohio State University Press. (E-mail: patpat85@embarqmail.com.)

Brian M. Pollins (Ph.D., MIT, 1981), Associate Professor Emeritus and a Research Fellow at the Mershon Center. Previously, he held positions as a Research Scientist at the Science Center Berlin, and as Visiting Scholar at the University Of Michigan School Of Business. He also served as the co-editor of International Studies Quarterly from 1991 through 1995, and as Chair of the Publications Committee for the International Studies Association 2006-Present. Pollins has taught for over twenty years in the ICPSR Summer Program in statistics. His published research has included works on statistical methods, social science epistemology, and international relations. Many of these publications focus on the effects of international political relations on global trade flows, global economic conditions and armed conflict, and the political implications of recent growth in global capital markets. This work has appeared in Journal of Conflict Management and Peace Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, and American Political Science Review.

Philipp Rehm (Ph.D., Duke 2008) Assistant Professor, Comparative Politics. His work is located at the intersection of political economy and political behavior. In particular, he is interested in the causes and consequences of income dynamics (such as income loss, income volatility, and risk exposure) at the micro-level (social policy preferences, party preferences, etc.) and at the macro-level (polarization, social policy support, determinants of social policies, etc.). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in British Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, and World Politics. (Phone: 614-292-8196; E-mail: rehm.16@osu.edu)

Bradley M. Richardson (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley, 1966), Professor Emeritus, has interests in comparative politics, comparative political behavior, and Japanese politics. His current research is concerned with conflict vs. consensus in Japanese political processes, political culture in new democracies and comparative mass behavior, including political communications. His books include Japanese Democracy: Conflict, Power, and Performance (Yale, 1997), The Political Culture of Japan (California, 1973), Voting in Japan (Tokyo, 1977), Business and Society in Japan (Praeger, 1981), and The Japanese Voter (Yale, 1991). He has also published articles in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Survey, and Journal of Modern Asian Studies. He has received grants in recent years from the National Science Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the Fulbright-Hays Commission, and the Comite Conjunto de Intercambio Cultural e Educativo Hispano-Americano. He received the Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award in 1996. He is currently engaged in research on political communications in twelve old and new democracies and two projects on Japan: Anomalies Inc: Political Culture Change in Japan and Political Culture in Germany, Japan, and Spain: Trends and Ambiguities. (Phone: 614-292-3807; E-mail: richardson.1@osu.edu)

Randall B. Ripley (Ph.D., Harvard, 1963), Professor Emeritus, conducts research and teaches in the general area of American politics and public policy, with an added interest in Canadian politics.  He has authored or co-authored a number of articles and books on various aspects of congressional behavior, bureaucratic behavior, policy-making in the United States, and the political activity of American labor unions.  His books include Party Leaders in the House of Representatives; Majority Party Leadership in Congress; Power in the Senate;  Congress, the Bureaucracy, and Public Policy; Congress: Process and Policy; Policy Implementation and Bureaucracy; Congress Resurgent: Foreign and Defense Policy on Capitol Hill; U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War; and American Labor Unions in the Electoral Arena. He has published articles in many journals, including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Western Political Quarterly. (Phone: 614-292-4392; E-mail: ripley.1@osu.edu)

Randall L. Schweller (Ph.D., Columbia, 1993), Professor, is the author of Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power (Princeton University Press, 2006), and Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler’s Strategy of World Conquest (Columbia University Press, 1998). His articles have appeared in World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, International Security, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Review of International Studies, and Security Studies. He is a member of the editorial boards of International Security, Security Studies, and the Studies in Asian Security Series (Stanford University Press). In 1993, he received a John M. Olin Post-Doctoral Fellowship in National Security at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. (Phone: 614-292-5357; E-mail: schweller.2@osu.edu)

Goldie Shabad (Ph.D., Chicago, 1976), Professor, has research interests in the transition to and consolidation of democracy in Southern and Central Europe, elite and mass political behavior, the development of new party systems, and ethnic nationalism. Her publications include Spain After Franco: The Making of a Competitive Party System (California, 1986); Crisis y Cambio (Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 1987); as well as numerous chapters in edited volumes and articles in World Politics, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Party Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Psychology, East European Politics and Societies, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Her current research projects focus on popular support for democracy in Poland, the emergence of new political elites in Central Europe, and elections, party systems and accountability in Central and Eastern Europe. (Phone: 614-292-1047; E-mail: shabad.1@osu.edu)

Richard Sisson (Ph.D., Berkeley, 1967), Senior Vice President, Provost and Professor Emeritus, has research and teaching interests in comparative politics with special emphasis on legislatures, parties, electoral politics, and democratization, particularly in India and other states of Asia. His current research focuses on voting behavior and electoral politics in contemporary India. He is the author of War and Secession: Pakistan, India, and the Creation of Bangladesh; Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Preindependence Phase; and The Congress Party in Rajasthan: Political Integration and Institution Building in an Indian State. He has been a frequent contributor to edited volumes and a variety of professional journals. He served as General Editor (with Christian Zacher and Andrew Cayton) of the recently published The American Midwest: An Interpretative Encyclopedia, is co-editor (with Edward D. Mansfield) of The Evolution of Political Knowledge: Theory and Inquiry in American Politics and the companion volume The Evolution of Political Knowledge: Democracy, Autonomy, and Conflict in Comparative and International Politics, and, with Geoffrey Parker, is co-editor of Ohio and the World: From Circa 1753 to Circa 2053, and, with Pradeep Chhibber and Sandeep Shastri, is writing The Structure and Culture of Political Representation and Association in India. He has been active in professional organizations having served as Co-Chair of the Program Committee of the American Political Science Association, as Chair of the Council of Provosts of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, and as President of the Ohio Historical Society. He served as Interim President of The Ohio State University, and until his retirement held the Board of Trustees Chair in Comparative Politics. (Phone: 614-688-3620; E-mail: sisson.9@osu.edu)

Elliot E. Slotnick (Ph.D., Minnesota, 1976), Professor and Associate Dean of the Graduate School, has his main area of interest in judicial politics. He has published articles in numerous journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, American Politics Quarterly, Western Political Quarterly, Polity, the Yale Law and Policy Review, and Judicature. He has contributed pieces to a number of anthologies and has edited Judicial Politics: Readings from Judicature and co-edited Readings in American Government and Politics. His coauthored book, Television News and the Supreme Court: All the News That's Fit to Air?, was published by Cambridge University Press. He is a recipient of The Ohio State University's Outstanding Teacher Award. Most recently, he co-edited (with Sheldon Goldman) and contributed to a special issue of Judicature focusing exclusively on the politics and processes of federal judicial selection during the two term W. Bush presidency. (Phone: 614-292-6031; E-mail: slotnick.1@osu.edu)

Nathaniel Swigger, (Ph.D., Illinois, 2009), Assistant Professor, Newark campus, has research and teaching interests in American politics with emphasis on public opinion, political psychology, campaigns and elections, and media analysis. His current research focuses on emotional and rational responses to campaign advertising, and inter-generational differences in attitudes toward civil liberties and democratic values. (Phone: 740-366-9686; E-mail: swigger.1@osu.edu))

Donald A. Sylvan (Ph.D., Minnesota, 1974), Associate Professor Emeritus, living and working in New York, has broad interests in international politics and political psychology.  His research concentrates on foreign policy decision making and problem representation in foreign policy.  Much of his recent work focuses on the Middle East.  He co-authored, “Trade-offs in Measuring Identities” in Measuring Identity:  A Guide for Social Scientists (Cambridge University Press, 2009), co-edited International Intervention: Sovereignty vs. Responsibility (London: Frank Cass, 2002), Problem Representation in Foreign Policy Decision Making (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and Foreign Policy Decision Making: Perception, Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence, and has co-authored Energy in the Global Arena.  His articles have appeared in such journals as International Studies Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Psychology, Foreign Policy Analysis, and Journal of Peace Research.  He has served as president of the Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International Studies Association, as president of ISA-Midwest, and as treasurer of the International Society of Political Psychology. E-mail: sylvan.1@osu.edu.

Alexander Thompson (Ph.D., Chicago, 2001), Associate Professor, has research and teaching interests in international relations, especially in the areas of IR theory, international organization, international environmental politics and political economy. His recent book, Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq (Cornell University Press, 2009), asks why powerful states often conduct coercive foreign policies through IOs and looks at the role of the UN in Iraq from 1990 to the present.  Much of his research addresses issues of institutional delegation and design at the international level, with specific projects on the design of the climate change regime, legalization in international trade, the politics of multilateral weapons inspections, the determinants of IO performance, and the political economy of treaty ratification.  Professor Thompson’s articles have appeared in various journals, including International Organization, the European Journal of International Relations, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Climatic Change, International Theory and the Journal of Legal Studies.  (Phone: 614-292-9491; E-mail: thompson.1191@osu.edu)

Daniel Verdier (Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1987), Professor, has research and teaching interests in international and comparative political economy. His work has focused on the politics of money and trade and how domestic political institutions condition a country's involvement in the international economy, and his current research deals with international institutions and international sanctions. He has published books on banking and finance by Cambridge University Press (2002) and on democracy and trade by Princeton University Press (1994). His articles on these and other topics have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Review of Economic Design among others. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Business & Politics. Before coming to Ohio State, he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. (Phone: 614-292-8130; E-mail: verdier.2@polisci.osu.edu)

Jeremy Wallace (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2009), Assistant Professor, studies the politics of non-democracies, particularly China, as well as urbanization, development, and redistribution. He is working on a book manuscript, Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Migration, and Authoritarian Resilience in China, examining how cities represent serious threats to autocratic regimes and how the Chinese Communist Party has managed its urbanization to maintain its rule. (Phone: 614-292-4291; E-mail: Wallace.521@osu.edu)    

Sara Watson (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2006) Assistant Professor, has research and teaching interests in comparative politics and comparative political economy, with an emphasis on the micro- and macro-politics of the welfare state.  She has published in Politics & Society and is currently working on a book manuscript examining the effects of intra-left party competition on the development of welfare capitalism in post-authoritarian Portugal and Spain.  She has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study the relationship between rising divorce rates and the emergence of a political gender gap.  In 2006-2007, Sara was an Izaak W. Killam Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia and in 2007-2008 a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan. (Phone: 614-688-0341; Email: watson.584@osu.edu)

Herbert Weisberg (Ph.D., Michigan, 1968), Professor, has research interests in American voting behavior, Congress, survey research, and political methodology.  His current research is on vote determinants in the 2008 U.S. election; he held a conference at OSU’s Mershon Center in October 2009 on the 2008 presidential election, and his article on racial attitudes effects in that election will be published in the December 2010 issue of Electoral Studies. He is one of the coauthors of The American Voter Revisited (University of Michigan Press, 2008). He teaches in OSU's Program in Survey Research. His other recent books are Controversies in Voting Behavior (5th ed., CQ Press, 2011), The Total Survey Error Approach: A Guide to the New Science of Survey Research (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and Models of Voting in Presidential Elections: The 2000 U.S. Election (Stanford University Press, 2004).  He has co-edited the American Journal of Political Science, as well as books on other presidential elections, on Congress, and on voting behavior.  He was president of the Midwest Political Science Association, was program chair for the American Political Science Association annual meetings, and was founding president of the APSA organized section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior. He previously taught at the University of Michigan and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Rochester, University of Essex, Rice University, California Institute of Technology, and University of California, Irvine.  Before becoming department chair, he was Director of the OSU Center for Survey Research and longtime Director of the Department's Political Research Lab.  (Phone: 614-292-6572; E-mail: weisberg.1@osu.edu)

Alexander Wendt (Ph.D., Minnesota, 1989), Professor, has research and teaching interests in international relations, political theory, social theory, and the philosophy of social science.  His current research focuses on the inevitability of a world state, and on the idea of a quantum social science. He is the author of Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and articles in International Organization, American Political Science Review, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, International Security, and Politics and Society. He has taught previously at Yale University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Chicago. (Phone: 614-292-9219; E-mail: wendt.23@osu.edu)

Ismail K. White (Ph.D., Michigan, 2005), Assistant Professor, studies American politics with a focus on African American politics, public opinion, and political participation. His current research projects include a study of the effects of racial cues on political evaluations, an investigation into the racial origins and consequences of felony disenfranchisement provisions, and a study examining Americans’ beliefs about the genetic origins of race and gender. Work from these projects has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Black Studies and Virginia Journal of Law and Social Policy.  (Phone: 614-292-4478; Email: white.697@osu.edu)

Jack R. Wright (Ph.D., Rochester, 1983), Professor, specializes in American politics, with emphasis on interest groups and their relations with Congress, the Supreme Court, and the federal bureaucracy. He is author of Interest Groups and Congress: Lobbying, Contributions, and Influence (Allyn & Bacon, 1996), as well as numerous articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and other leading scholarly journals. He has been the recipient of several research grants from the National Science Foundation. (Phone: 614-292-9025; E-mail: wright.569@osu.edu)

 

COURTESY FACULTY

James J. Brudney (M.A. Oxford 1973, J.D. Yale 1979) Professor of law and political science, has research and teaching interests in legislation, judicial behavior, and the law of the workplace. His current research focuses on statutory interpretation in relation to separation of powers, the influence of judicial background on doctrinal development, and labor-management relations law. He has published articles in Law and Society Review, Michigan Law Review, Harvard Journal of Legislation, Vanderbilt Law Review, and other leading journals. He has served as Secretary for the American Bar Assn Section on Labor and Employment Law. He currently serves on the editorial board of the CHH Labor Law Journal, and is a member of the Public Review Board of the United Automobile Workers of America. He has received the Outstanding Teaching Award at the College of Law, and was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at Oxford University in the fall of 2000. (Phone 614-292-0795; E-mail: brudney.1@osu.edu)

Kevin Cox (B.A. from Cambridge and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois), Professor of geography and political science. His main interest is in the relation between social theory, particularly political economy, and geography. More specific interests are critical realism and historical geographical materialism. Areas of application include the politics of urbanization in advanced capitalist societies; and the political economy, in its spatial aspects, of South Africa. Professor Cox is a political geographer with strong interests in theory and method. (Phone: 614-292-7948; E-mail: cox.13@osu.edu)

William P. “Chip” Eveland, Jr. (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1997), Professor, has research and teaching interests in political communication and public opinion.  In particular, his work focuses on the role of traditional and newer forms of news media, as well as political discussion, in informing and mobilizing the public.  He has a secondary interest in how mass and interpersonal communication influence perceptions of opinion climates, and the role of these perceptions in encouraging or discouraging political participation. He has published in journals in both political science and communication, including Political Communication, Political Psychology, Media Psychology, Communication Research, and the Journal of Communication. His work has won the Worcester Award for Best Article published in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research (2001) and the Best Article Award from the Political Communication division of the International Communication Association (2006).  He was also the 2003 recipient of the Young Scholar Award from the International Communication Association.  Some of his current research is funded by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement. (Phone: 614-247-6004; Email: eveland.6@osu.edu)

David Jacobs (Ph.D., Vanderbilt 1975) Professor of sociology and political science is a political sociologist interested in political economy. His current research includes studies of the politics of punishment and law enforcement, the politics of labor-management relations, and theories of labor markets and organizational hiring networks. He has published articles in journals such as the American Sociological Review, the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Politics, Social Forces, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Social Problems. Current projects in the politics of punishment include a time-series study of shifts in support for the death penalty and the number of executions since 1951, an analysis of the relationship between lynchings and death sentences, and the political and other determinants of survival on death row (currently funded by the National Science Foundation). Recent publications include "Political Opportunities and African American Protest, 1948-1997," American Journal of Sociology (2003) with Craig Jenkins and John Argonne, and "The Political Sociology of the Death Penalty," American Sociological Review (2002) with Jason Carmichael. Before coming to Ohio State, Professor Jacobs was Professor of political science and director of the Clark honors college at the University of Oregon. He received the best article award from the American Sociological Association section on political sociology. (Phone: 614-292-6685; E-mail: jacobs.184@osu.edu)

J. Craig Jenkins (Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1975) Professor of political science and sociology, specializes in political sociology and social movements. Current research projects include comparative analyses of social movements and violence, state failure and comparative revolutions, impact of protest on democratization, the world refugee crisis, ethnic and nationality conflicts and global environmental degradation in terms of tropical deforestation and global warming. (Phone: 614-292-5452; E-mail: jenkins.12@osu.edu)

Pamela Paxton (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998), Associate Professor, sociology and political science. Political sociology, quantitative methodology, stratification. Current projects include: a cross-national study of the relationship between social capital and democracy, an investigation of graduate program rankings, and a monte carlo simulation assessing fit statistics in structural equation models. (Phone: 614-688-8266; E-mail: paxton.36@osu.edu)

Kazimierz Slomczynski (Dr. Hab., 1981, and Ph.D., 1971, both from the University of Warsaw), Professor of sociology and political science, has research interests in social inequality, democratization processes, and comparative methodology. His recent articles have been published in the Polish Sociological Review, International Journal of Sociology, Comparative Political Studies, Political Psychology, East European Politics and Societies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Party Politics. He is co-author of Social Structure and Self-Direction (Blackwell, 1991, with Melvin L. Kohn), and editor of two volumes: Social Patterns of Being Political and Social Structure: Changes and Linkages (IFiS Publishers, 2000 and 2002). Before coming to OSU, he worked at the University of Warsaw in Poland. In the past, he held visiting academic positions in the United States (Johns Hopkins, Cornell), Japan (Osaka and Tokyo Universities), and China (Nankai University). Currently, in addition to his position at the OSU Department of Sociology, he is affiliated with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. (Phone: 614-292-8078; E-mail: slomczynski.1@osu.edu)

Wendy G. Smooth (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2001) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies, Political Science and is a faculty affiliate with the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Her research and teaching interests are in American politics with a primary emphasis on gender and public policy, racial politics, and state and local government.  Prior to joining the faculty of The Ohio State University, she served as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Here work appears in Politics & Gender and various edited volumes. Her current research focuses on the impact of gender and race in state legislatures. She examines the ways in which institutions preference gender and racial norms through their institutional arrangements, norms, preferences and day to day operating procedures. Currently, she is completing a book entitled, Power and Influence: The Impact of Race and Gender in American State Legislatures under review with the University of Michigan Press. She was recipient of the 2001 Best Dissertation in Women and Politics Award presented by the Women and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. (Phone: 614-247-8449; E-mail: smooth.1@osu.edu)

 

ADJUNCT FACULTY

John H. Glenn (BA, Muskingum College, 1962), Adjunct Professor, was a decorated Marine pilot in World War Two; a Colonel in the Marine Corps, retiring in 1965; a decorated and path-breaking test pilot and astronaut; and a four-term U.S. Senator from Ohio through 1998. In 1962, as a member of the Mercury project, he was the first American to orbit the earth. In 1998, he returned to space as a member of the Discovery team. His longstanding interests in government and politics include, among many other topics, the impact of an aging population, technology policy, international cooperation, nuclear non-proliferation, civic engagement and democratic participation, education, and fostering student involvement in political life and public service. Senator Glenn is deeply involved in the activities of The John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy at Ohio State.