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Faculty
William T. Bluhm
Nora Bredes
Kevin Clarke
Richard Dees
John Duggan
Richard Fenno
Mark Fey
Edward Fiandach
Gerald Gamm
Hein Goemans
Gretchen Helmke
Thomas Jackson
Bruce Jacobs
James Johnson
Stuart Jordan
Tasos Kalandrakis
Bonnie Meguid
Richard Niemi
Michael Peress
Charles Phelps
G. Bingham Powell
Lynda Powell
David Primo
Peter Regenstreif
Lawrence Rothenberg
Joel Seligman
Curtis Signorino
Valeria Sinclair-Chapman
Randall Stone
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Gerald Gamm
Associate Professor of Political Science and History
Department Chair
gerald.gamm@rochester.edu
Harkness Hall 331
585-275-8573
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| PhD, Harvard, 1994. American politics, history, institutions. Current research on Congress, urban neighborhoods, state and local government, and voluntary associations. Books include The Making of New Deal Democrats (University of Chicago Press, 1989), Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed (Harvard University Press, 1999), and a forthcoming book (with Steven S. Smith) on the development of Senate party leadership in the 19th and 20th centuries. Articles include "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); "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); and "Emergence of Legislative Institutions" (with Kenneth A. Shepsle), Legislative Studies Quarterly (1989). Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1996-97. Recipient of a 1998 Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching. Teaches courses in the fields of American politics and American history. |
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Courses:
| PSC 103 |
Great Debates in American Democracy |
| PSC 194 |
Rochester Politics and Places |
| PSC 202 |
Argument in Political Science |
| PSC 210 |
Development of the American Party System |
| PSC 318/518 |
Emergence of the Modern Congress |
| PSC 241/530 |
Urban Change and City Politics |
| PSC 249 |
Sports and the American City |
| PSC 523 |
American Politics Field Seminar |
| PSC 530 |
Urban Change and City Politics |
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