Gerald Gamm
Associate Professor
Associate Professor of Political Science and History
Political Science Department Chair
331 Harkness Hall
Rochester, New York 14627-0070
gerald.gamm@rochester.edu
phone: 585.275.8573
fax: 585.756.4425
Ph.D., Harvard, 1994
Fields of Interest
American politics, history, and institutions.
Current research on Congress, urban neighborhoods, state and local government, and voluntary associations.
Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1996-1997. Recipient of a 1998 Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching.
Representative Publications:
- Book (with Steven S. Smith) on the development of Senate party leadership in the 19th and 20th centuries (forthcoming).
- "Legislatures as Political Institutions: Beyond the Contemporary Congress" (with John Huber) in Political Science: The State of the Discipline, 3rd ed. (American Political Science Association and W. W. Norton, 2002).
- Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed (Harvard University Press, 1999).
- "The Growth of Voluntary Associations in America, 1840-1940" (with Robert Putnam), Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1999).
- "Representing Urban Interests: The Local Politics of State Legislatures" (with Scott Allard and Nancy Burns), Studies in American Political Development (1998).
- The Making of New Deal Democrats (University of Chicago Press, 1989).
- "Emergence of Legislative Institutions" (with Kenneth A. Shepsle), Legislative Studies Quarterly (1989).
