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James M. Glaser - American Politics, Political Behavior

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1991

Professor Glaser is a student of electoral politics and political behavior. His new book, The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics, published in spring 2005 by Yale University Press, was named by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title of 2005. His first book, Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South, also published by Yale, received the Southern Political Science Association’s V.O Key Prize awarded to the best book on Southern politics. Prof. Glaser also 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 at work on a project looking at group conflict theory and its application to thorny electoral issues. He 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.

Prof. Glaser is now serving as Dean of Undergraduate Education for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering.

Prof. Glaser's Curriculum Vitae
 


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