The Solomon Project: Our Book: Jews in American Politics: Contributors

Jews in American Politics Editorial Advisory Board

Douglas M. Bloomfield, Bloomfield Associates
Geoffrey D. Garin, Peter D. Hart Research Associates
Michael B. Levy, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
Ann Lewis, Former White House Communications Director
Mark S. Mellman, The Mellman Group
Ronald B. Rapoport, College of William and Mary
Stuart Rothenberg, The Rothenberg Political Report
Mark Talisman, Project Judaica Foundation

Jews in American Politics List of Contributors

L. Sandy Maisel is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government and chair of the Department of Government at Colby College. A thirty-year veteran of the Colby faculty, Maisel is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than a dozen books, including Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process, The Parties Respond, and Two Parties - or More?: The American Party System. His current research examines the decision-making processes of those who consider running for elective office.

Ira N. Forman is the research director of the Solomon Project and executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council. He previously served as a lobbyist and political director for AIPAC. Earlier in his career he was a research fellow at the Center for National Policy and ran a lobbying and political consulting firm.

Donald Altschiller is a librarian at Boston University and has worked at Harvard, MIT, and the American Jewish Historical Society. An editor of eight books, he has also contributed to several reference works with essays covering Jewish, African American, and other historical subjects. He loves locating Jewish trivia.

Charles W. Bassett is the Lee Family Professor of English and American Studies emeritus at Colby College. An expert on the life and writings of John O'Hara, Bassett was the American Studies Association's first winner of the Mary Turpie Award for contributions to the discipline; he was associate editor of Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia.

Joyce Antler is the Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America and the editor of America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers and Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture. She is a founding member and chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Jewish Women's Archive.

Robert A. Burt is Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law at Yale University. He is author of Two Jewish Justices: Outcasts in the Promised Land and The Constitution in Conflict.

Jerome A. Chanes is associate executive director of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and an adjunct professor at Barnard College of Columbia University. He is the editor of A Portrait of the American Jewish Community and the author of A Dark Side of History: Antisemitism through the Ages. Chanes is a senior research fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies of the City University of New York Graduate Center.

David G. Dalin, a widely published American Jewish historian, is currently visiting professor in Judaic studies at the George Washington University. He is the author or coauthor of five books in the fields of American Jewish history and Jewish political thought. His most recent book, coauthored with Alfred J. Kolatch, is The Presidents of the United States and the Jews.

Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of American Government at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author or coauthor of a number of books, including Politics by Other Means, American Government: Freedom and Power, The Captive Public, The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State, We the People, The Consequence of Consent, and the forthcoming From Citizens to Customer: How America Downsized Citizenship and Privatized Its Public.

Anna Greenberg is vice president of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner research in Washington, D.C.; she is on leave as assistant professor of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. She specializes in public opinion, political participation, gender politics, and religion and politics. She is currently working on a book entitled Divine Inspiration: Revealing Faith in Politics, which examines the role of congregations in politics and local communities.

Matthew R. Kerbel is professor of political science at Villanova University. A former news writer for public broadcasting, he is the author of a number of books, including If It Bleeds It Leads: An Anatomy of Television News; Edited for Television: CNN, ABC, and the 1992 Presidential Election; and Remote and Controlled: Media Politics in a Cynical Age.

Connie L. McNeely is associate professor of public policy in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. Her work is concerned with issues of public policy and governance and addresses various aspects of politics, race and ethnicity, organizations, and culture. She is the author of Constructing the Nation-State: International Organization and Prescriptive Action and coauthor and editor of Public Rights, Public Rules, which examines matters of citizenship and polity participation.

Gerald M. Pomper is Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Author or editor of sixteen books, his publications include Passions and Interests, Elections in America, and Voters' Choice. His most recent book is The Election of 2000, the seventh volume in a twenty-four-year series on U.S. national elections.

Miles Pomper is the foreign policy reporter for CQ Weekly Report. Previously, he served as a reporter for Legi-Slate News Service and a foreign service officer with the U.S. Information Agency.

Edward Shapiro is a professor of history emeritus at Seton Hall University. His books include A Time for Healing: American Jewry since World War II and Letters of Sidney Hook: Democracy, Communism, and the Cold War. He is currently writing a book on the Crown Heights (Brooklyn) riots of 1991.

David M. Shribman is assistant managing editor and Washington bureau chief of the Boston Globe. He is a trustee of Dartmouth College and has taught courses on American politics at Brandeis University, Gettysburg College, and Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1995, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his articles on American political culture.

Steven L. Spiegel is professor of political science and associate director of the Burkle Center for International Relations at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is also director of the Mideast Arms Control Program at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the statewide international relations institute of the University of California. Among his many books are World Politics in a New Era, The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict: Making American Middle East Policy from Truman to Reagan, and The Arab-Israeli Search for Peace in the Middle East.

Susan J. Tolchin is professor of public policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. She is the author of The Angry American: How Voter Rage is Changing the Nation. Together with Martin Tolchin she has written six books, including To the Victor: Political Patronage from the Clubhouse to the White House, Clout: Womanpower and Politics, and Glass Houses: Congressional Ethics and the Politics of Venom. She received the Marshall Dimock Award for the best lead article in the Public Administration Review in 1996.

Kenneth D. Wald is professor of political science and director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of Religion and Politics in the United States and Private Lives, Public Conflicts: Conflicts over Gay Rights in American Communities. He recently coedited The Politics of Gay Rights and has just completed a new book, The Politics of Cultural Difference in U.S. Elections.

Stephen J. Whitfield is a specialist in twentieth-century American politics and culture at Brandeis University, where he has been teaching since 1972. His most recent book is In Search of American Jewish Culture. He has served as visiting professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, and the Sorbonne.