Biographical sketches of department chairs


Years in Term	Name of Chairperson	Degrees	Field; Major Books; Major Honors; Comments
2000 -2003	Herbst Susan	B.A., Duke University PhD, University of Southern California, 1989	American politics: Numbered voices: how opinion polling has shaped American politics (1993); Politics at the margin: historical studies of public expression outside the mainstream (1994); Reading public opinion (1998). Co-Editor, University of Chicago Press Series in Media, Communication and Public Opinion.
1997 -2000	Wallerstein Michael	A.B., Stanford University, 1974 PhD, University of Chicago, 1985.	Political economy: Trade union behaviour, pay bargaining, and economic performance (1993); "Structural Dependence of the State on Capital," American Political Science Review (1988); "Union Organization in Advanced Industrial Democracies," American Political Science Review (1989); "Wage-Setting Institutions and Pay Inequality in Advanced Industrial Societies," American Journal of Political Science (1999). President of the Comparative Politics Section of the APSA: 1999-2001.
1994 -1997	Casper Jonathan D.	B.A., Swathmore, 1964 PhD, Yale University, 1969	Law and politics: American criminal justice (1972); Lawyers Before the Warren Court (1972) The politics of civil liberties (1972); Criminal courts (1973); Guggenheim Fellow, 1968. National Academy of Science Panel on Sentencing; 1972-75.
1991 -1994	Skogan Wesley G.	B.A., Indiana University, 1965 PhD, Northwestern University, 1971	Law and politics: Disorder and decline: Crime and the Spiral of Decay in American Cities (1990); Community Policing, Chicago Style (1997); On the beat: police and community problem solving (1999); Senior Fellow, Open Society Institute; Fellow, American Society of Criminology.
1988 -1991	Casper Jonathan D.	(see 1995-1998 )
1985 -1988	Abu-Lughod Ibrahim	B.A., University of Illinois, 1953 PhD, Princeton University, 1957	African and middle eastern politics: Arab Rediscovery of Europe (1963); The Evolution of the Meaning of Nationalism (1963); African themes (1975); Associate Director, Program of African Studies
1982 -1985	Anderson Lee F.	A.B., University of Idaho, 1956 PhD, University of Illinois, 1961	International relations and political socialization: A comparison of simulation, case studies, and problem papers in teaching decision-making (1964); Legislative Roll Call Analysis (1966); Schooling and Citizenship in a Global Age (1979); White House Fellow, APSA, 1960-61
1980 -1982	Janda Kenneth	B.S., Illinois State University, 1957 PhD, Indiana University, 1961	Comparative and American politics: Data Processing: Applications to Political Research (1965); Political Parties: A Cross-National Survey (1980); Parties and Their Environment (1982); The Challenge of Democracy (1987, 1st ed; 2001, 7th); John Marshall Chair, Fulbright Program, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, 1993-94. Payson S. Wild Professor, 1987-
1977 -1980	Gurr Ted R.	A.B., Reed College, 1957 PhD, New York University, 1965	Comparative politics: Violence in America (1969); Why Men Rebel (1970); Politimetrics (1972); Patterns of authority (1975); Ethnic conflict in world politics (1994); Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1956-57; Payson S. Wild Professor, 1980-87
1974 -1977	Jacob Herbert	A.B., Harvard University, 1954 PhD, Yale University, 1960	Law and politics: Justice in America (1965); Politics in the American States (1965 and other years); Debtors in court (1969); Crime and justice in urban America (1980); founder, Law and Politics Electronic Book Review; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1973-74
1973 -1974	Janda Kenneth	(see 1980-1982 )
1970 -1973	Minar David W.	A.B., Reed College, 1949 PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1951	American political thought and metropolitan politics: Ideas and Politics: The American Experience (1964); Educational Decision-Making in American Communities (1966)
1969 -1970	Blanksten George I.	A.B., University of Chicago, 1939 PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 1947	Comparative politics, Latin America: Peron's Argentina (1953); Ecuador: Constitutions and Caudillos (1964); United States' Role in Latin America (1966)
1968 -1969	Snyder Richard C.	A.B, Union College, 1937 PhD, Columbia University, 1945	International relations and foreign policy: Most-Favored Nation Clause (1948); American Foreign Policy (1954); An introduction to American foreign policy (1955); The United States decision to resist agression in Korea (1959); First Gordon Scott Fulcher Professor of Decision-Making; architect of Northwestern's emphasis on political behavior. Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1956-57; Vice-President of the American Political Science Association, 1967.
1965 -1968	Blanksten George I.	(see 1969-1970)
1964 -1965	Snyder Richard C.	(see 1968-1969)
1963 -1964	Blanksten George I.	(see 1969-1970)
1957 -1963	Snyder Richard C.	(see 1968-1969)
1956 -1957	Blanksten George I.	(see 1969-1970)
1955 -1956	McGovern William M.	soro, Nishi Hongwanji, Buddhist Monastery, Kyoto, 1917 D.Phil, Christ Church College, Oxford University, 1922	comparative politics and political theory: Modern Japan (1920); Colloquial Japanese (1920); The early empires of Central Asia (1939); From Luther to Hitler (1941 and 1973); Radicals and conservatives (1957); Strategic intelligence and the shape of tomorrow (1961);
1953 -1955	Hyneman Charles S.	A.B., Indiana University, 1923 PhD, University of Illinois, 1929	American government and democratic theory: The Illinois Constitution and democratic government (1951); Bureaucracy in a Democracy (1950); The Study of Politics (1959); The Supreme Court on Trial (1963). President of the American Political Science Association, 1962.
1949 -1952	Posey Rollin G.	A.B., University of Kansas, 1927 PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1942	American government, state & local politics: Government for Americans (1959, 1963);
1940 -1949	Colegrove Kenneth W.	A.B., State University of Iowa, 1909 PhD, Harvard University, 1915	Comparative Politics--U.S., Japan, and Korea: The Japanese emperor (1932); Powers and functions of the Japanese diet (1934); Militarism in Japan (1936); Democracy versus communism (1957).
1928 -1940	Hatton Augustus R.	Ph.B, Franklin College, 1898 PhD University of Chiicago 1907;	Metropolitan government: Digest of City Charters (1906); Public Budgets (1915); Charter of the City of Cleveland (1924)
1915 -1928	Harris Norman D.	Bachelor's, Yale University, 1892 PhD in History, University of Chicago, 1901	Diplomatic history and international relations: The history of Negro servitude in Illinois: and of the slavery agitation in that State, 1719-1864 (1904); French colonial expansion in West Africa, the Sudan and the Sahara (1911); Intervention and Colonization in Africa (1914); Europe and the East (1926).