James M. Glaser

American Politics, Political Behavior
Professor, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1991

Biography

James M. Glaser is a student of electoral politics and political behavior. His books, The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics and Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South, both published by Yale University Press, each received the Southern Political Science Association's V.O. Key Prize awarded to the year's best book on Southern politics. And both books were named by Choice as one of the year's Outstanding Academic Titles. Professor Glaser has published articles in such periodicals as American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, PS: Political Science and Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Electoral Studies, and Political Research Quarterly. At the present time, Professor Glaser is working with Michigan Ph.D. candidate Timothy Ryan on a project looking at group conflict theory and its application to thorny electoral issues.

Professor Glaser received the 2000 Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Advising, awarded to one member of the faculty judged by graduating seniors as having had a profound effect on them intellectually.

From 2003 to 2010, Professor Glaser served as the university's Dean of Undergraduate Education. He is presently serving as Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences.

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