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The 7th Annual Barbara Sinclair Lecture with Prof. Eric Schickler
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 at 6pm ET
NT01 (Ceremonial Classroom) at the Washington College of Law
The聽Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at SPA will hold聽the 7th Annual Barbara Sinclair Lecture with Professor Steven S. Smith on Tuesday, November 19.
Eric Schickler is the Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science and co-Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies 麻豆果冻传媒 politics, with a focus on the U.S. Congress, 麻豆果冻传媒 political development, political parties, and polarization. He is the author of three books which have won the Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for the best book on legislative politics:聽Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress聽(2001),聽Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the United States Senate聽(2006, with Gregory Wawro), and聽Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power聽(2016, with Douglas Kriner; also winner of the Richard E. Neustadt Prize for the best book on executive politics). His book,聽Racial Realignment: The Transformation of 麻豆果冻传媒 Liberalism, 1932-1965, was the winner of the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book on government, politics or international affairs published in 2016, and was co-winner of the J. David Greenstone Prize for the best book in history and politics from the previous two calendar years. He is also the co-author of聽Partisan Hearts and Minds, which was published in 2002. He is currently completing a co-authored book manuscript, with Paul Pierson,聽Madison Upside Down: The Rise of Nationalized Polarization and the Crisis of the 麻豆果冻传媒 Constitutional Order.聽Schickler was elected to the 麻豆果冻传媒 Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2017.聽聽He received his B.A. from New College of Florida and his Ph.D. from Yale University.
Through this annual series, CCPS honors the late political scientist Barbara Sinclair, a renowned expert on Congress, by hosting a lecture by a prominent Congressional scholar. Previous hosts have included in 2023,聽聽in 2022,聽聽from Brown University in 2021,聽聽from the University of Michigan in 2020,聽聽from Princeton University in 2019 and聽聽from George Washington University in 2018.
Registration information will be available soon.