Harold W. Stanley is the Geurin-Pettus Distinguished Chair in
American Politics and Political Economy at Southern Methodist
University (SMU). In 1979, he joined the University of Rochester
Department of Political Science and served as its chair from 1996
to 1999. Known as an expert in American national politics and
electoral change in the South, Stanley currently serves as
associate provost at SMU.
Richard G. Niemi is Don Alonzo Watson Professor of Political
Science at the University of Rochester, where he has taught for
forty-five years and has served as department chair, associate dean
for graduate studies, and interim dean. He earned his PhD from the
University of Michigan in 1967. Professor Niemi has been a
Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in
the Behavioral Sciences. He has been a visiting professor at the
University of Lund (Sweden) and at the University of Iowa. In
2007–2009 he was president of the American Political Science
Association’s Section on State Politics and Policy. He is a
foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and a
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the
author, coauthor, or editor of numerous works on political
socialization, civic education, voting behavior, and various
aspects of state politics. He has an ongoing interest in the Native
Americans of upstate New York and Wisconsin, from whom he can trace
a portion of his ancestry.
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