Gerard Gryski
Professor
Chair of the Department of Political Science
Gerard S. Gryski, Professor and Chair of the Department, earned his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He specializes in American national politics and has published articles in the Journal of Politics, Western Political Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly. His recent work has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation and he is finishing his third book, The Institutional History of the United States District Courts. He teaches American Government, and Political Economy in the University Core Curriculum, as well as upper-level and graduate courses on American politics.
Interest Areas
American national political institutions, policy process, political economy
Representative Publications
- Bureaucratic Policy-Making (Cambridge: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1981).
- The Federal Judiciary and Instrutional Change (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996).
- Models of State High Court Decision Making in Sex Discrimination Cases, Journal of Politics 48 (February, 1986): 143-155.
- A Bench That Looks Like America? Representation of African-Americans and Latinos on the Federal Courts. Journal of Politics, 56 (November, 1994): 1076-1086.
- African American Representation on the United States Courts. In Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (eds). The Perseus Africana Encyclopedia. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Revised and Updated version in second edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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