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Jeremy Mayer

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Associate Professor;Director, Political Science Doctoral and Master's Programs

Contact Information

jmayer4@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-8223
󲹳:703-993-8215
Mason Square, Van Metre Hall, Room 654
3351 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
MSN: 3B1

Biography

Jeremy Mayer is an associate professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at AV, where he also directs the masters and PhD programs in political science. He is the author of Running on Race: Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns 1960-2000 (Random House 2002) as well as the brief textbook 9-11: The Giant Awakens (Wadsworth 2002, 2nd edition 2006), and American Media Politics in Transition (McGraw Hill 2006) and coauthor of African American Statewide Candidates in the New South (Oxford 2022), The South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics (Oxford 2019) Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in Higher Education (Brookings 2008). He has written articles on diverse topics such as presidential image management, Christian right politics, public opinion and torture, and comparative political socialization, in journals such as Presidential Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and The Historian. From 2001-2003 he served as a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown University, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1996. He taught previously at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he won a campus-wide teaching award. Dr. Mayer is a recipient of the Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching for the American Political Science Association, the only national teaching award in political science. He is also the only two time recipient of the alumni faculty award at the Schar School, and in 2018 he received the Don Lavoie Teaching Award from the faculty. He has also studied politics at Oxford, Michigan, and Brown. Dr. Mayer has trained new American diplomats and ambassadors for the State Department at their Foreign Service Institute since 2002. He has spoken on behalf of the State Department in Germany, Moldova and Mexico, as well as regularly to visiting foreign delegations in Washington. He has offered political commentary to major networks, including the World News Tonight, BBC, Fox News, Sky News, PBS’s Newshour, NPR, CNBC, and local affiliates, as well as many national newspapers.

Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION

Ph.D.,GeorgetownUniversity.1996.
Major:AmericanGovernment
Minors:InternationalRelationsandPoliticalTheory Language: Japanese
AdvancedStatisticalMethods

B.A.,BrownUniversity, 1990.PoliticalScience Major.

Inter-universityConsortiumforPoliticalandSocialResearch(ICPSR), 1997.
CategoricalDataAnalysis,RegressionAnalysis,GameTheory

LinacreCollege,Oxford, 1994.
Japanese Politics, The Nissan Institute
AmericanPolitical Behavior,St.ԲԱ’sCollege

PROFESSIONALAPPOINTMENTS

AssociateProfessor,GeorgeMasonUniversity,2006-present
Teachingcoursesonresearch methods,policyanalysis,foreignpolicy,andAmerican institutions. Director of Graduate Studies in Political Science (2022-). Previously Director of the Masters in Public Policy.

AssistantProfessor,GeorgeMasonUniversity,2003-2006

VisitingAssistant Professor,GeorgetownUniversity,2001-2003.
Taughtcoursesonscopeandmethods ofpoliticalresearch, politicalbehavior,elections, Congress, race, and the media.

AssistantProfessor,KalamazooCollege,1996-2001.
Taughtcoursesinconstitutionallaw,presidency,Congress,elections,civilliberties,TV politics.

TEACHINGAWARDS

2018DonLavoieTeaching Award.Annualaward tobestteacher intheSchar School.

2016,2008AlumniAssociationAward.AnnualawardtobestteacherinScharSchool, as determined by alumni.

2002Rowman andLittlefieldAward forInnovativeTeaching inPoliticalScience.Theonly national award for teaching in the discipline, given annually at the national conference.

FrancisDiebold Award,1998.Acampus-wideawardatKalamazoo College.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

RUNNINGONRACE:RACIALPOLITICSINPRESIDENTIALCAMPAIGNS1960-
2000.RandomHouse,2002.
NamedbyWashingtonMonthly as oneofthebest politicalbooks of 2002.

9-11:THEGIANTAWAKENS. Wadsworth, 2002.
9-11:AFTERMATHOFTHEATTACKS,2nded.Wadsworth, 2006.

AMERICANMEDIAPOLITICSINTRANSITION.McGrawHill, 2008.

DECONSTRUCTINGREAGAN:ACRITICALANALYSISOFCONSERVATIVE MYTHOLOGY.M.E.Sharpe,2007 (Coauthored).

CLOSEDMINDS?POLITICSANDIDEOLOGYINAMERICANHIGHER EDUCATION, Brookings,July2008(CoauthoredwithBruceSmithandLee Fritschler)

MEDIAPOWER,MEDIAPOLITICS,2nded.Rowman andLittlefield,2008(Co-editedwith Mark Rozell).

THESOUTHANDTHETRANSFORMATIONOFU.S.POLITICS,withCharlesS. Bullock,SusanA.McManus, andMarkJ.Rozell.2019.OxfordUniversityPress.

AFRICANAMERICANSTATEWIDECANDIDATESINTHENEWSOUTH,with CharlesS.Bullock, SusanA.McManus, andMarkJ.Rozell.2022.OxfordUniversityPress.

PEER-REVIEWEDARTICLES

  1. “PDZپDz’sChildren:PoliticalSocializationintheAgeofHatred. ”WithRobertC. McGrath and Molly S. Andolina. Under review at Political Behavior.
  2. “”With Laurie A. SchintlerandScottBledsoe. World Medical Health Policy Journal. December 2020.
  3. “TwoPresidents,TwoCrises: BushWrestleswith9/11,TrumpFumblesCOVID-19.” PresidentialStudies Quarterly.50(3),629-49.July,2020.DOI:10.1111/psq.12674
  4. “ResponsetoDavidA.Bateman,IraKatznelson,andJohnS.Lapinski’sReview ofThe South and the Transformation of U.S. Politics.” With Charles Bullock, Susan MacManus, & Mark Rozell. Perspectives on Politics18(2), 561-562. 2020.
  5. “Rootsoftheradical right:NostalgicdeprivationintheUnited StatesandBritain.”With Justin Gest and Tyler Reny. Comparative Political Studies51 (13), 1694-1719. 2018.
  6. “IsThereaCulture orReligionofTorture? InternationalSupportforBrutalTreatmentof Suspected Terrorists.” With Naoru Koizumi. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.September, 2016.
  7. "GeographicVariationinColdIschemia Time:Kidneyvs.LiverTransplantationinthe United States, 2003-2011." With Koizumi, N., DasGupta, D., Patel A., Smith, T.E., Callender C., and Melancon J.K. Transplantation Direct,Vol 1: 7, Aug, 2015.
  8. “Reading Tea Leaves: What 1,331 Protest Placards Tell Us About the Tea Party Movement.”VisualCommunicationQuarterly.Vol22:4,2015.WithXiaomei Cai, Amit Patel, Rajendra Kulkarni, Virgil I. Stanford, and Naoru Koizumi.
  9. “Supportfortortureover time: InterrogatingtheAmericanpublic about coercive tactics.” SocialScience Journal.November,2012.WithDavidJ.Armor.
  10. “Communitiesofcolor? Client-to-clientracialconcordanceintheselection ofmental healthprograms forCaucasiansandAfricanAmericans.”HealthCareManagement ScienceVolume14,Number4.2011.WithNaoruKoizumi, AileenB.Rothbard,and Tony E. Smith
  11. “Immigrationinthe2008Virginiapresidentialelection:Aculturalissueremainspuissant despite an economic crisis.” Social Science Journal. Vol. 47: 2010. With Ward Kay.
  12. “PoliticsattheSpeedofLight: HowtheInternet HasChangedMediaCoverage of Campaigns.”2008.JournalofLawandPolitics(Japan),Volume5Spring2008.
  13. “Ospersistentesproblemasestruturaisdaseleiçõesamericanas:liçõesde2004”(“T persistentstructuralproblems inAmerican elections:theexampleof2004”)Relações Internacionais(Portugal), March 2005.
  14. “TPresidencyandImageManagement:DisciplineinthePursuit ofIllusion.”Vol34: 2004. Presidential Studies Quarterly.
  15. “CپFundamentalistsandPublicOpinion TowardtheMiddle East:Israel’sNew Best Friends?” Vol 85:3,2004. Social Science Quarterly.
  16. “GenderedPolitical SocializationinFourContexts:Political InterestandValuesAmong Junior High School Students in China, Japan, Mexico, and the United States.”With Heather Schmidt.2004. The Social Science Journal.
  17. “DemographicShifts andRacialAttitudes:HowTolerantareWhitesintheMostDiverse Generation?”With Molly W. Sonner. The Social Science Journal, 40: 2003.
  18. “TBushPresidency:TransitiontoCrisisLeadership.”WithMarkRozell andClyde Wilcox.Acta Politica: International Journal of Political Science.2002.
  19. “TBullets,theBallots, andtheBacklash: TheChargedRacial Politicsof1968.”The Historian,Winter, 2002.
  20. “TRacialPoliticsofthe1964PresidentialCampaign: LBJ WinsDespiteCivilRights.” Prologue:TheJournaloftheNational ArchivesandRecords Administration.March, 2001.
  21. “Bradley’sFailure, McCain’sSuccess:ThePreprimaryCampaigns of2000.”WithAlex Sarapu. Political Chronicle,Fall 2000.
  22. "JapanandInternationalRelations Theory:WhyTokyoDidn’tGoBallisticOverNorth Korean Nukes."Journal of Northeast Asian Studies, XV:2, Summer 1996.

NON-PEER-REVIEWEDARTICLES

  1. “TNationalEconomic Council.”WithScottBledsoe.. October, 2020.
  2. “”TheAmerican Interest.1/19/2018.
  3. “”TheAmerican Interest. 12/8/2016.
  4. “”TheAmericanInterest.8/23/2016.
  5. “”TheAmerican Interest.Vol11,Issue5,March,2016.
  6. “”TheAmericanInterest.Vol11,Issue2,October, 2015.
  7. “PublicHealthandtheCIA. ”WorldMedicalHealthPolicy. Vol4,Issue3-4,December 2012.
  8. ’d Trade A Million Tweeters For One Washington Post Reporter.” Issues: UnderstandingControversyandSociety.ABC-CLIO.Web.November13.2012.
  9. “”TheAmerican Interest,October25,2012.
  10. “HungerandUndernutritioninAmerica:Another Way.”Issues:Understanding Controversy and Society. ABC-CLIO. Web. 28 April. 2011.
  11. "AThirdChoice—TaxOurWaytoaBetterEnvironment."Issues:Understanding Controversy and Society. ABC-CLIO. Web. 28 Nov. 2011.
  12. “”TheAmerican Interest.Nov/Dec 2011.
  13. “Willgayrightsbeastate-by-statebattleintheUSA?”Federations.Vol.4,No.3, March 2005.
  14. “T 2004 Presidential Election: Bush Wins Another Broken 𳦳پDz.” Relações Internacionais,thejournal oftheInstitutoPortuguêsdeRelaçõesInternacionais,Lisboa, Portugal.2005.
  15. “9-11andtheSecretFISACourt: FromWatchdogtoLapdog?”JournalofInternational Law.2002.
  16. “GayRightsintheUSA:TheStatesLeadtheWay.”WithLouis-Philippe Rochon. Federations.Vol.2,No. 1,November 2001.
  17. “ZogforAlbania,Edward forEstonia,andRoyalsforalltheRest?TheRoyalRoadto Prosperity,Democracy,andWorldPeace. ”With LeeSigelman.PS: PoliticalScience and Politics. December 1998.
  18. “TomRidge”“JohnAshcroft”“JohnDingell”“EricCantor”“NancyPelosi”“John Snow” entries in the World Book Encyclopedia, 2002-9.

GRANTACTIVITY

Polarization’sChildren: PoliticalSocialization intheAgeofHatred.$70,0002019 awarded.
CharlesKochFoundationgranttoconduct surveysofmiddle schoolchildrenandtheir parents on political polarization and its roots.

StudyoftheU.S.InstitutesforStudentLeadersonPublicPolicy andGovernment Leadership. $237,111. 2012 awarded (program in 2013)
U.S.StateDepartment/MeridianInternational.Asixweekstudyprogram atGMUfor thirty undergraduates from around the world.

VectorsofRageandRestoration:ContentAnalysisofTeaPartySigns. $5,000.
SeedgrantfromGeorge MasonUniversity,withDr.Xiaomei CaiofҲѱ’sSchoolof Communication.

Studiesof USInstitute:China30X30.$160,000.2009.
U.S.StateDepartment/AcademyforEducationalDevelopment.Co-directed(withMark Rozell) a three week study program at GMU for thirty undergraduate students from China.

PoliticalDiversity/IntellectualClimate.$100,000,2002.
This grant was received from the Lounsbery Foundationto examine the question of facultybiasinhighereducation.Myco-investigatorswereLeeFritschlerandBruceL. R.Smith. 2004-2007.

WhoseConscience?WhichClause?Mandated ContraceptiveCoverageandReligious Autonomy.$5,000, 2002.
Areporton thepolitics ofbirthcontrol insurancein thefiftystates, fromagrantby the Pew ForumonReligionandPublicLife.WithClyde Wilcox.

PoliticalSocializationinJapan,$13,000,1999
ASIANetworkgrant for research on political socialization in China and Japan. Receivedgrantof$13,000fortraveltoJapantoresearchpoliticalsocialization.Grant led to publication in Social Science Journal.

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. “Does Terror Cause Torture?A Comparative Study of International Public Opinion About Governmental Use of Coercion.” With Naoru Koizumi and Ammar Anees Malik. ExaminingTorture:Empirical StudiesofStateRepression.EditedbyTracyLightcap and James P. Pfiffner. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
  2. “TTeaParty’sUnlikelyPopulists.”PlutocracyandDemocracy.EditedbyAdam Garfinkle. American Interest Ebook, 2012.
  3. “CampaignPressCoverage: Instantaneous.”WithJosephGraf.Campaignsonthe Cutting Edge.2nd ed. New York: Sage, 2012.
  4. “T Presidency and Image Management: Discipline in Pursuit of Illusion.” UnderstandingthePresidency,6thed.EditedbyJamesP.PfiffnerandRogerH. Davidson.Pearson, 2010.
  5. “CampaignPressCoverage: PoliticsattheSpeedofLight.”CampaignsontheCutting Edge.Edited by Richard J. Semiatin. Congressional Quarterly Press, 2008.
  6. “M徱Power,MediaʴDZپ.”MediaPower, MediaPolitics,2nded.Edited byMark Rozell and J. Mayer. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 2008.
  7. “APresidentTransformed:Bush’sPreandPostSeptember11RhetoricandImage.”With Mark Rozell. In The Public Domain: Presidents and the Challenge of Public Leadership, edited by L. C. Han and D. J. Heathe, 207-26. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.
  8. “Zog for Albania, Edward for Estonia, and Royals for all the Rest?The Royal Road to Prosperity,Democracy,andWorldPeace.”WithLeeSigelman.QuantitativeMethods in Practice.Edited by David Rochefort.Congressional Quarterly Press. 2005.
  9. “TInternetandtheFutureofMediaʴDZپ.”WithMichaelCornfield.InMedia Power, Media Politics.Edited by Mark Rozell. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. 2003.
  10. “T Perils and Promise of Presidential Polling: From Gallup’s Dream to the Morris Nightmare.” With Lynn Kirby.In Is This Anyway To Run a Democratic Government?EditedbyStephenJ.Wayne,WashingtonDC:GeorgetownUniversity Press, 2004.
  11. “T IncorrigiblyWhite Republican Party: Racial Politics in the 2000 Presidential 𳦳پDz.”InTheElection oftheCentury,editedbyStephenJ.WayneandClyde Wilcox, M.E. Sharpe, 2002.
  12. “UnderstandingPerot’s Plummet.”WithClydeWilcox.In Ross ForBoss: Massand ElitePerspectives,TedJelen,ed.Albany:StateUniversityofNewYorkPress,2000.
  13. "EverythingComesUpRosy: TheIowaChristian Rightinthe1994Elections."With Bruce Nesmith. In God at the Grassroots:The Christian Right and the 1994 Elections, edited by Clyde Wilcox and Mark Rozell.Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995.

OP-EDS

  1. “”TheHill. May25,2021.
  2. “.”WithMike Condray. USA Today. January 18, 2021.
  3. “.”WithDavidC.Williams. TheHill.January13, 2021.
  4. “”TheHill.December16, 2020.
  5. “”NewYorkDailyNews.November29,2020.
  6. “”WithLaurieSchintler.The Hill. August18, 2020.
  7. “”TheHill.August10, 2020.
  8. “” WashingtonExaminer,July16,2020.
  9. “”WithTracy Mayne.TheHill.June 16, 2020.
  10. “”WashingtonExaminer,June11,2020.
  11. “” USA Today, January 14, 2020.
  12. “”USA Today,June10, 2018.
  13. “”TheHill.January8,2018.
  14. “CivilityintheClassroomin theAgeofTrump” Mason GradInsider. April28, 2017.
  15. “HugoChavez:CanHistory PrepareUsfortheTrump Presidency?”Politico Magazine. January22,2017.
  16. “”ChristianScience Monitor.October 10, 2013.
  17. “”ChristianScienceMonitor.August 2, 2013.
  18. “.” Christian ScienceMonitor. November8,2012.
  19. “”Christian Science Monitor.October 25, 2012.
  20. “.”Christian Science Monitor.October 17, 2012.
  21. “”Christian Science Monitor.October 4, 2012.
  22. “.”ChristianScience Monitor.August13,2012.
  23. “”Christian Science Monitor.August 1, 2012.
  24. “WhyRick PerryRemindsUs ofWalter Mondale.”ThePolitico.September27, 2011.
  25. “Surprise:TheNRAhasactuallylostinfluenceonguncontrol.”ChristianScience Monitor. January 19, 2011.
  26. “ASimpleWaytoHelpHaitiRecover:LetU.S.EatSugar.”RichmondTimes- Dispatch. April 11, 2010.
  27. “” New York Daily News.January 20, 2010.
  28. “”The Politico.November19,2009.
  29. “”The Politico.September22,2009.
  30. “”ThePolitico.June30, 2009.
  31. “”ThePolitico.June23, 2009.
  32. “”ThePolitico.April20,2009.
  33. “”The Politico.March29,2009.
  34. “.”ThePolitico.February24,2009.
  35. “”NewYorkDaily News.August 20th 2008.
  36. “”ThePolitico,April22, 2008.
  37. “”ThePolitico.October16th, 2007.
  38. “”The Politico,October3,2007.
  39. “”ThePolitico,September17, 2007.
  40. “”ThePolitico,July7,2007.
  41. “”ThePolitico.January24, 2007.
  42. “KerryonIraq:Hemustbeclearer.”NorthernVirginia Journal.June7, 2004.
  43. “Aalyzingthemidtermelection results.”BlueandGray. November11,2002.
  44. “Trealdirtybombisalready here.” NorthernVirginia Journal.August11, 2002.
  45. “Electionlawsuit wouldbringmutually assureddestruction.”KalamazooGazette. November 13. 2000.
  46. “OnlyGoremaystop a bananarepublic.”DetroitNews. November9, 2000.
  47. “Inaclosevote,wouldtherebethecouragetoconcede?”DetroitNews. November6, 2000.
  48. “GoreinDoubleTrouble inMichigan.” DetroitNews, November14,1999,p. 9C.
  49. “Businessculture tiedtodearthofbirths. ”JapanTimes,July13,1998,p.21.
  50. “Preferencevoting willincreasecity’s electionturnoutproblem ”KalamazooGazette, April3,1998, A9.
  51. “FiegereatsawayatDems’chancefor governorship”DetroitNews,March14,1998.
  52. “MaturinginAmerica” WashingtonTimes,March3,1998.A23.
  53. “Potholefight linkedtoinsurancereform”DetroitNews,May23,1997.
  54. “IfEnglerwon’traisegastax,hiscampaign maybebumpy.”DetroitFreePress,March 21, 1997.
  55. “ClintonTuition PlanBenefitsOnlyARichElite.”DetroitNews, March6, 1997.
  56. “Engler,lawmakers nowmustacceptdividedgovernmentanddealwithit.”DetroitFree Press,January 31, 1997, 9A.

REVIEWS

  1. Review of Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after the reconstruction, David A. Bateman, Ira Katznelson, and JohnS.Lapinski.With Charles S. Bullock III, Susan A. McManus, and Mark J. Rozell. Perspectives on Politics18 (2). 2020
  2. Review of The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment by Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estep.Political ScienceQuarterly135 (1). 2020.
  3. ReviewofFreedom’sPragmatist:LyndonJohnsonandCivilRights, by Sylvia Ellis. Journal American History. 101(3),996-7.
  4. ReviewofNoRightTurn:ConservativePoliticsinaLiberalAmerica,byDavidT. Courtwright.Journal of American History2011 98: 590-591
  5. ReviewofVaccine:TheControversialStory ofMedicine’sGreatest Lifesaver, World Medical & Health Policy: Vol. 2: Iss. 4, 2010. With Naoru Koizumi.
  6. ReviewofWillingandUnable:Doctors’ ConstraintsinAbortion Care,byLori Freedman. World Medical & Health Policy: Vol. 2: Iss. 3. 2010.
  7. ReviewofTheLanguage ofLife:DNAandtheRevolutioninPersonalizedMedicine. by Francis Collins. World Medical & Health Policy: Vol. 2: Iss. 2. 2010.
  8. ReviewofTheHealing ofAmerica,byT.R.Reid. WorldMedical&Health Policy: Vol 1: Iss. 2. 2010.
  9. ReviewofBedsideManners,byDavidWatts,(withNaoruKoizumi) WorldMedical& Health Policy: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 14, 2009.
  10. ReviewofAlliesforArmageddon:TheRiseofChristianZionism, byVictoriaClark, in The Journal of American History, vol 95, #2, 2008.
  11. “”AreviewofRobertShrum’s book,No Excuses: Confessions of a Serial Campaigner.The Politico, June 24, 2007.

CONVENTION PANEL

Organizer.
پܱپԲPolitics:BringingtheDramaofConflictIntotheUndergraduateǴdz.”The Pi Sigma Alpha sponsored panel on teaching political science. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting Boston, August 1998.

CONVENTIONPAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

  1. “ATrickletoaTsunami: AsianAmericanPoliticalPowerintheSouth.”WithMarina Ann Manganaris. A presentation at the Citadel Conference on Southern Politics, Charleston, South Carolina, March 3, 2022.
  2. “How African American Candidates Navigate the Southern Democratic Primaries: From Chisholm and Jackson, to Obama and Today.” A presentation at the European Association of American Studies and the British Association of American Studies Conference, King’s College, London England. April 26, 2019.
  3. “T Role of Race in Trump’s Victory: A Southern Advantage and a National Boost.”A presentation at the European Association of American Studies and the British AssociationofAmericanStudies Conference,King’sCollege, LondonEngland.April4- 7, 2018.
  4. “TortureandPublic Opinion”ApresentationattheInsecurity,FrayingWorldOrder,and Human Dignity Symposium, Georgetown University February 27, 2017
  5. "KidneyandLiverCITVariationsacrossOPOsandTheirImplications:USExperience Between 2003 and 2011." With Koizumi, N., DasGupta, D., Patel A., Smith, T.E.., CallenderC.,andMelanconJ.K.ApresentationattheAmericanTransplantCongress, May 2015 in Philadelphia.
  6. “W󲹳 Influences National Choices about Torturing—Whether to Start, Stop, or Continue.”WithNaoruKoizumi.Research SymposiumonTorture intheAmericas, Georgia State University, March 23, 2015, in Atlanta.
  7. “EԾԲ International Attitudes toward Torture.” With Naoru Koizumi. A paper presentedattheInternationalStudies Association’sAnnualConvention,March,2014,in Toronto, Canada.
  8. Discussant,panelattheReformingThePoliticallyCorrect University,American Enterprise Institute conference, Washington DC, November 14, 2007.
  9. “Politics at the Speed of Light: The New Media In American ʴDZپ.”A paper presented at the International Workshop at the Graduate Schools forLawandPolitics, University of Tokyo, March, 2007.
  10. “PartisanPatterns intheAftermathofTerror: CivilLiberties,Spending andtheCentrality of Fear.” With Naoru Koizumi and Todd LaPorte. A paper presented at the American Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting, August 31, 2006, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  11. “AssessingFaculty Bias:ACritiqueandaLookForward.” SouthernPoliticalScience Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, January, 2006.
  12. “Cپ Fundamentalists and Public Opinion Toward the Middle East: Israel’s New BestFriends?” SouthernPoliticalScience AssociationAnnualMeeting, Savannah,GA, November, 2002.
  13. 貹ConservatismandSupportfortheCourt: DidWhitesNotice TheRehnquistTurn to theRightonRace?”American PoliticalScienceAssociationAnnualMeeting,Boston, August, 2002. (With Jacquie Jones)
  14. “PoliticsReturns toCenterStage. ”NationalCapitalAreaPoliticalScienceA ssociation, for the panel “Teaching Political Science in the Post 9-11 Climate.” Washington DC, May 15, 2002.
  15. “Color Blind Justice?: The Effect of Racial Conservatism on Public Support for the SupremeCourt.” National Conference of Black Political Scientists,AtlantaGeorgia, March 2002. (With Jacquie Jones)
  16. “ATaleofTwoStraddles:TheQuietRacial Politicsofthe1960PresidentialCampaign.” AmericanPoliticalScience AssociationAnnualMeeting, Atlanta,Georgia,August1999.
  17. “Testing‘MereMention’:DoesAffirmativeAction InflameAffectiveResponses.” SouthernPoliticalScienceAssociationAnnualMeeting,Atlanta, Georgia,October28- 31, 1998.
  18. “White Voters and Racial Context in Presidential Elections: The Influence of Black PopulationLevels onWhiteVotingBehaviorinTheElections of1988,1992,and1996.” SouthernPoliticalScienceAssociationAnnual Meeting,Norfolk,Virginia,November5- 7, 1997.
  19. “Race Relations and Generation X: How the Most Ethnically Diverse Generation Approaches Questions of Race in America” Coauthor Molly Sonner.Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 10-12, 1997.
  20. "ReflectionsAcrossthePacific: Politics,Economics,War,andAlliance intheMindsof American and Japanese Citizens.” Coauthors Cynthia Hamill, Aiji Tanaka, and Clyde Wilcox. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 10-12, 1997.
  21. "Did Lee Atwater and Willie Horton Matter?Racial Environment, National Partisan Elites, and the Presidential Elections of 1988 and 1992." Coauthor Molly Sonner. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August, 1996.
  22. "White Partisan Defectors and Black Population Levels: Evidence of a New Theory of WhiteGroupIdentity?"Midwest PoliticalScienceAssociationAnnualMeetingChicago, April, 1996.
  23. "A Causal Path Analysis of the 1988 Election: Willie Horton and White Responses to Racial Environment." Southwest Social Science Association’sAnnualMeeting, Houston, March, 1996.
  24. "Southern Whites, Non-Southern Whites, and Racial Environment: A Comparison of Political Responses Among Whites to Black Population Levels in Three States." Citadel’s Symposium on Southern Politics, Charleston, South Carolina, March,1996.
  25. "ReligiousCoalitionsinIowaPolitics:Catholics,theChristianRight,and1994." Association for the Sociology of Religion, Washington DC, August, 1995.
  26. "AfterShawv.Reno:ThreeGenerationsofJuristsConfrontRacialRedistricting." Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, April, 1995.
  27. "Japan and International Relations Theory: Applying Western Rules to an Eastern Power." Georgetown University Colloquium on JapanandTheories ofInternational Relations, 1994.

INVITEDTALKS

“TBidenAdministration:First100DaysinOffice.” PatchworkFoundationandU.S.Embassy in London Zoom Conference Panel Discussion. May 11, 2021.

“TTrumpEffectonDomesticAmerican ʴDZپ.”PanelsponsoredbytheNational Defence Institute (NDI) of Portugal. October 28, 2020.

“W󲹳HappensIf?Possible Electoralܳٳdz”MasonVotesDiscussion,withDr.Jennifer Victor. October 27th, 2020.

“TBlackLivesMatters Movement:ThroughtheLensofthe60’s”S𲹰andPanel Moderator, Schar School Alumni Association Online symposium, July 27, 2020.

“.”ScharSchoolWebinar, Speaker,May 20, 2020.

“Fǰ𱹱Changed:TheImpact ofCovid-19onAmericanSociety.” PizzaandPerspectives Series, AV, April 27, 2020.

“PDZپDzintheAgeof鲹”KochAssociatesProgram,ArlingtonVirginia,February20, 2020

“FYearofTrump:WhatisHappeninginAmerica?” Amerikahaus, Munich, November 13, 2017
GermanAmericanInstitute,Heidelberg,November14,2017 Saarbrucken University, Saarbrucken, November 14, 2017
Volkshochschule,Koln,followedbyapanelwithGermanacademicandpolitician,November 16, 2017
Martin-LutherUniversityHalle-WittenbergNovember22,2017.

ٱ𲹰󾱲ԲforTruth:TheNewSocial MediaEnvironmentintheUSA” Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, November 13, 2017
HMKW-UniversityforMedia,CommunicationandEconomics,Berlin, November20,2017 John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University, Berlin November 21, 2017
StateDepartmentlecturetourofGermany, November,2017.

“FܲԻ岹ԳٲoftheUSPoliticalSystem”, FoundationsofAmerican Lawprogram, Georgetown University Law Center, July 2014.

“States of Torture: Terrorism, Politics, and Economics as Causes of State-Sponsored Torment.” Lunchtimelecture, GeorgetownUniversitySchool ofForeignService, May12,2014(presenting work coauthored with Naoru Koizumi)

“CDzԲDzԲPolitics,2014.”Lecturetoseniormilitary officersparticipatinginaleadership training program on Capital Hill, for Marine Corps University, May, 2014.

“O’s Biggest Fault: Hoping for Change.”Presented as part of a panel on ’s Political Institutions in Trouble,attheannual meetingoftheConsortiumofSocialScience Associations (COSSA), Washington DC, November 4th, 2013.

“O’sʰDz𳾲…aԻܰ.”Lecture atWestminster,totheBritish American Parliamentary Group, London, England, July 16th, 2013.

“AOutburstofWildPopulism:TheTeaPartyInAmerican ʴDZپ.”Lectureonbehalfofthe State Department in Hamburg Germany to a conference of teachers of English, June 2011.

“Current American Campaign Tactics: Lessons for Spain?” An eight hour course presented to regionalpoliticiansfromthePeople’s PartyofAsturias, Spain.FENABusiness School,Ovideo Spain, January 21st, 2011.

“M徱Bias,MediaAvoidance:TheNewPolitics oftheNewѱ徱”Apresentationtothe County Executives of America, Washington DC, November 19, 2010.

“Fox vsMSNBC:TheNewAmericanCivilWar.Adiscussiononmediaandpoliticsinthe21st century.”ForumsponsoredbytheSPPStudentAssociationandAlumniAssociation,Arlington VA, October 12, 2010.

“AMinoritiesandPolitical Participation.”PresentationtotheMiddle Eastern Partnership Institute of the State Department, at Washington DC, July 12,2010.

“OandthePolitics of鲹.”PresentationtotheAmerican PoliticsandPublic Affairs Program, Georgetown University, Washington DC, July 21, 2010.

“Tǰٳܰ/ձǰ--ܰLawlessnessVersusճ𾱰.”Presentationto“AintheWorld” class at Osher Lifelong Learning Center, Fairfax Virginia, May 10, 2010.

“APrematureEvaluationofPresident.”Keynoteaddress, VirginiaCreditUnionLeague Annual Conference, Reston Virginia, May 9th, 2009.

“TAmericanPresidency:Growth and󲹱Բ.”PresidentialClassroomprogram, Washington DC, January 19, 2009.

"Endgame:TheLastMonth inPresidentialElections,ThisYearandEveryվ.”Selectedto give the October 2008 Visions Lecture at George Mason.

“NMediainAmericanʴDZپ.”PresentedattheBrookingsInstitution,ExecutiveEducation Program, 2008.

Lecture tour of Germany, March 2008, for the State Department’s Cultural Exchange program. Gavespeeches inBerlin,Hamburg, Frankfurt,Heidelberg,andMunich,onthe2008Presidential Election and on media politics.

“T2008PresidentialElection: HistoryintheѲ쾱Բ.”Apubliclecture attheSchoolof Governance, University of Maastricht, January 17th, 2008.

’dRatherVoteinMexico:StructuralFlawsintheAmericanElectoralٱ.”Apublic lecture at the League of Women Voters, Arlington VA, October, 2007.

“KԱDeepintheBigSandy orRisingtotheNewChallengeofWorld Leadership?USForeign PolicySince9-11.‹𳦳ٳܰattheUSinaGlobal Communityconference, Bonn,Germany,May 19th, 2007.

“WǰLeadershipRejected,Accepted,andMastered:Looking BackontheAmericanCentury.” Lecture at the US in a Global Community conference, Bonn, Germany, May 18th, 2007.

“T Future of Islam: A discussion with Reza Aslan.”A discussion/debate with Reza Aslan, authorofNo GodbutGodattheUSinAGlobal Communityconference, BonnGermany, May 17th, 2007.

“CپFundamentalistsandIsrael:Israel’s NewBestFriends?” Nuhrnberg-Erlangen University, Nuhrnberg Germany, May 16, 2007.

“CپFundamentalistsandAmericanPublic OpinionTowardstheMiddleEast.”Bamberg University, Bamberg Germany, May 15, 2007.

貹PoliticsinAmerican Presidential𳦳پDzԲ.”German AmericanInstitute,Stuttgart, Germany, May 14, 2007.

“APolitical Institutions.”GuestLecturer, May7-11,2007,SchoolofGovernment, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.

“Parties, Media and the Rise of the Internet: A Speculative Essay on the Ongoing Shift in the BalanceofPoliticalPowerAmongCommunicationٱ.”International WorkshoponPolicy SystemsandMeta-PolicySystemsinAdvanced Countries:ThePolitical MechanismofPolicy Change. University of Tokyo.March 5, 2007.

“TLongestCampaignintheWorld: ChoosingthePresident 2008.”Presentationtothe National Council of International Visitors, Washington DC, February 17, 2007.

“W󲹳DoThe2006ElectionsMeanForHealthCareܱ?”Lecture totheEmployersCouncil on Flexible Compensation, Carnegie Institution, Washington DC, November 9, 2006.

“.”Acommentaryon InDefenseofNegativity,byJohnG.Geer.TheCato Institute, Washington DC, September 20, 2006.

“CܱٳܰWarAndtheJudiciary:TheRootsinDz.”6thAnnualJusticeAtStake Convention, Washington, DC, June 22, 2006.

“Structural Flaws in American 𳦳پDzԲ.” Keynote address given on behalf of the U.S. Departmenttoaninternationalconferenceonelectoral fairnessandjustice, sponsoredbythe state government of Guererro, Mexico, April 2006.

“BtoCivicEngagementin.”TalkgiventotheHubert H.HumphreyFellowship Program Washington Seminar, February 9, 2006, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

貹Politicsinthe2004Presidential𳦳پDz.”Talkforthe LeagueofWomenVotersof Northern Virginia, February 2006.

“Lee v. Weisman and Rosenberger v. UVA.”A talk given at the We The People:The Citizen andtheConstitutionmeeting forNorthernVirginia publichighschoolteachers,Fredericksburg, VA, October 2005.

OneNationUnderWhoseGod?TwoEstablishmentClause䲹.”Keynote addressattheLou Frey Institute Conference on 9-11, University of Central Florida, October, 2005.

“EԾԲthe2004Presidential𳦳پDz.”Talkgiven totheHubertH.Humphrey Fellowship ProgramWashingtonSeminar, November16,2004,sponsoredbytheU.S.Departmentof State.

“Fǰ𾱲Policy inthePresidentialElectionof2004:Advantageܲ?”Paperpresented atthe conference “T United States and the International Order”, sponsored bythe Luso-American Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, September 30–October 1, 2004.

“Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns.” A forum on my book Running on Race, with MichaelDukakisandPaulWatanabe,heldattheJohnF.KennedyLibrary, Boston,MA,April 28, 2003.

ٲڱ,LessFree,orBoth? CivilLibertiesafter9-11”andٳdztotheSystem orReturnto Normal? The Effects of 9-11 on the American Political ٱ.” Addresses at the Lou Frey Institute Conference on 9-11, University of Central Florida, April 2003.

ܲԲԾԲ on Race: Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns.” Keynote address, Global Citizenship Program, SouthwestMissouriStateUniversity,Springfield,MO.October,2002.

“BǷɱԲAloneinArlington?TheRelevanceofRobertPutnam toOurdzܲԾٲ.”Speechto the Committee of 100, a forum for civic leaders, Arlington, Virginia, December, 2001.

“TMeaningofthe2001𳦳پDzԲ.”GuestontheVoiceof’scall-in showon American politics, “A Today,” November 2001.

ܲԲԾԲon Race: The Racial Politics ofthe1960, 1988, and 2000 Presidential Campaigns.” Forum talkattheMiller CenteronPublicAffairsattheUniversityofVirginia.August,2001.

“KԲԱ’sPhoneCallandDz’sSilence: MartinLutherKingJr.andtheRacial Politicsof the 1960 Campaign.”Speech given as part of the celebration of King Week at Kalamazoo College. Broadcast in 1999 and2000byWMUK,Kalamazoo,Michigan.

“BDzԻBraveheart:Scottish InfluencesontheDzԲپٳܳپDz”Speech giventotheKalamazoo County Rotary Club, February, 1998.

“Change Your Tie Bill, Your Numbers Are Bad: The Perils and Promise of Polling For ʴDZپ.” Speech to the faculty ofKalamazooCollege, aspartoftheColloquiumSeries,Spring 1997.

HONORS

Onequartermeritleave, winter2000.Toconductresearch attheReaganandNixon librariesin California, as well as the Nixon Archives in Maryland.

ʰDZDz’scommendationforteaching ,giventothetop5%offaculty atKalamazooCollege in any given term.1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000.

Passed with distinction, oral comprehensive exam in American Government, Oct. 1994.

Passedwithdistinction,written comprehensiveexaminAmericanGovernment,Sept.1994.

Passed Fluency in Methodology Exam, December, 1993.

Pro-SeminarFellowshipinSpring1996,toteach aseminar,RaceandModernAmerican Politics, to upper-level undergraduates.

ScholarshipforstudyatLinacreCollege, Oxford,pursuinggraduate researchattheNissan Institute and St. Anne's College.

PiSigmaAlpha,thepoliticalscience honorssociety,withgraduateGPAof3.94.

National Merit Scholar, 1986-1990, Brown University

WilliamRandolphHearstSenate YouthScholar,1986-8

MEDIA

Quotedinorappeared CNN,FoxNews,AustralianBroadcast Company,NHK(Japan), BBC, WashingtonPost, NewYorkTimes, BostonGlobe,Politico,PBSNewshour,NPR,andmany others.

SERVICEACTIVITIES

ManuscriptReviewer

AmericanPoliticalScience Review,SocialProblems, SocialForces,SocialScienceQuarterly, Journal of American History, World Medical Health Policy.

MPPDirector,2007-2009,2011-2013.
Directedthelargestmaster’s programintheSchoolofPublicPolicy, withapproximately 400 students enrolled at any given time.

Search Committee Chair, Public Finance 2012-13.

PhDAdvisor, GeorgeMasonUniversity,2003-present.
I have successfully supervised seven GMU PhDs to completion: Scott Bledsoe, Phil Pedlikin,AdamJustus,PaulTrampe,Ralph Kerr,WardKay,andJillRough.Ihavebeen on many other committees as well.

CourseCoordinator.GeorgeMason University2003-2005.
Servedasaninformal coordinatorforthe501course. Alsosupervisedtwograduate student instructors of two sections of the course.

McNairScholar Mentor,GeorgetownUniversity, 2002.
Mentoredaseniorthesis onHispanicpolitics forIndianaUniversity.

TeachingCommittee,KalamazooCollege,2001.

FacultyDevelopmentCommittee,KalamazooCollege,1997-2000.
Evaluatedgrantapplicationsfortravel and research.

SearchCommittees.KalamazooCollege,1997-8.
AssistedinsearchesinHistory,Art, and PoliticalScience.

SIP(Senior IndividualizedProject)Adviser.KalamazooCollege,1996-2001.
Advisedover45students intheconductofinternshipsandinthecreationofresearch theses examining their experiences.Students worked for refugee agencies, political campaigns, executive branch agencies, private law firms, and other groups.

PrelawAdviser,KalamazooCollege,1996-2001.
Providecounselonselectionofandadmissiontolawschools, andwriteletters todeans about specific candidates.Also founded the Kalamazoo College Prelaw Society.

OTHERACTIVITIES

Simulation Director, Spring 2009, Spring 2010 - The Defense Senior Leader Development Program, the premier leadership program for civilian executives of the Department of Defense.Created a35-role,immersive leadershipsimulationthatincludesreal-time crisis management, public relations, a press conference and complex problem solving.

FilmInstructor,ArlingtonLearninginRetirement Institute(ALRI),Spring2007.
Taughtacourseinfilmmakingonavolunteer basis.

GuestLecturer,FoundationsofAmericanLawprogram,GeorgetownUniversityLaw Center
Taughtinternationallawstudents aboutthefoundationsofAmericanpolitics,2004- present.

Simulation Director,Summers2006-09, GeorgetownUniversitySchoolofContinuingStudies, High School Program in Politics and Public Affairs.
Designed a week-long election simulation involving more than 100 students as candidates,campaign staffers,pollsters,adcreators,broadcasters,andprintjournalists.

MessageConsultant,AmericansforStrong NationalSecurityPAC, 2005-
CraftedmessageonIraqandimmigrationforthisgroup, aswellastheDNCandsome political consultants.Gave message briefings to 35 candidates for Congress.

AdCreator,Cato InstituteTalk,September20, 2006.

ScriptConsultantandActor,“PresidentforaDay.”BBC3,2004.
Wroteascenarioandtookontheroleofpresidentialadvisorinthistelevisionshow broadcast throughout Great Britain.

ProgramConsultant,BBC, 2003.
Scriptedascenariofortheshow“TSituationǴdz”broadcastinthespringof2003.

Co-LecturerandCo-CourseDesigner, U.S.StateDepartment,2002-present
Createdandtaughtacoursefornewdiplomats onansweringdifficult questionsin stressful foreign situations.

SpeechwriterandConsultant,StephanieHersethforCongress,2001-2.
Wroteandediteddrafts ofspeechesfor aCongressionalcandidateinSouth Dakota.

Speaker,UnitedStateDepartmentandmanyotheragencies,1995-present.
RegularlygivetalksonfederalismandAmericanpolitics tovisitingdelegationsincluding groups from five continents.

VisitingInternationalLecturer,USStateDepartment,Moldova, Summer, 2000.
Gavea weeklongseminar inpoliticalanalysis inChisinau, Moldova.

Member,BoardofDirectors,AmericanCivilLibertiesUnion,SouthwestMichigan branch, 2000-1.

PollDirector,News3/KalamazooCollege1999 ExitPoll,Fall1999.

Directedover60students inpolling2,000votersinthecityofKalamazoo.Accurately predicted outcome of city commission race; delivered regular reports to CBS affiliate.

PollDirector, News3/KalamazooCollege1998 ExitPoll,Fall1998.
Directedover40students inpolling1,000voters inthecityofKalamazoo.Exactly predictedalocalstatehouserace;deliveredregularreporttoCBSaffiliate.

GrantEvaluator,CorporationforNational Service,Springof 1997.
Hiredforthreedaysasanoutsideevaluator ofproposalsforserviceeducation projectsin higher education, conducted in Washington DC.

PLAYWRIGHT

Since1994,Ihavehadfiveplaysproduced inWashingtonDC,Manhattan,Buffalo, and Michigan.

REFERENCES

Dr. Jim Pfiffner
SchoolofPolicy,Government,andInternationalAffairs AV
3351Fairfax Drive
ArlingtonVA22201 pfiffner@gmu.edu

Dr.MarkRozell Dean
ScharSchoolofPolicyandGovernment AV
3351Fairfax Drive
ArlingtonVA22201 rozell@gmu.edu

Areas of Research

  • American Government and Politics
  • Elections
  • Foreign Policy
  • Media Politics
  • Public Opinion
  • Racial Politics
  • Statistical Methods
  • U.S. Foreign Policy