Brief History

List of Faculty Members since 1935

By Richard W. Boyd, Professor of Government, February, 2005

The development of the Government Department at Wesleyan paralleled the construction of the social sciences in American higher education more broadly. In 1862 Wesleyan created a Department of Moral Philosophy, which split into three departments in the 1880s: Mental Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, and History and Political Economy. Future President Woodrow Wilson joined History and Political Economy in 1888 and wrote his book, The State, here. The institutional economist, John R. Commons, also taught in this department in 1890 before, as he acknowledges in his autobiography, being terminated after one year for poor teaching.

The national associations for history, economics, and political science were founded in 1884, 1886, and 1903 respectively. Wesleyan’s departments reflect these national disciplinary developments. In 1890, History and Political Economy split into a combined History and Government department and a separate Political Economy department, subsequently to become the Department of Economics.

With the support of a $300,000 grant from the Surdna Foundation in 1935, Wesleyan separated History and Government into its current two departments, the latter named formally “The John E. Andrus Department of Government.” The 1935-36 departmental masthead included three faculty members: Sigmund Neumann, E. E. Schattschneider, and Ralph Frederic Bishoff. Schattschneider, Wesleyan’s most illustrious departmental member, had joined the faculty in 1930 and spent all but the initial two years of his professional life at Wesleyan. At the department’s founding, Schattschneider was named John E. Andrus Associate Professor of Government. He became the John E. Andrus Professor of Government in 1939 and held this title until his retirement in 1960.

By 1945, the Government Department had developed a remarkably distinguished faculty. Victor Jones, Steven K. Bailey, and Alan B. Overstreet had joined Schattschneider and Neumann. Bailey left Wesleyan in 1954 to direct the Woodrow Wilson Center at Princeton, and Jones departed in 1955 for the University of California, Berkeley. The department grew to eight faculty members in 1955, including Joseph C. Palamountain, who would later serve as Wesleyan’s Provost and Skidmore’s President.

In the early 1960s, Wesleyan had an exceptionally high endowment per student, and the University invested it in a major expansion of programs and faculty members. Faculty size roughly doubled between 1960 and 1972. With this expansion the Government Department grew rapidly, By 1965, the department numbered 11. The Department proved particularly successful in recruiting new Ph.D.s from Yale, including Fred I. Greenstein, Nelson W. Polsby, Richard M. Merelman, and Russell D. Murphy. With good undergraduates, a two-course teaching load per semester, and small classes, the department attracted professionally ambitious new faculty with strong research records. Some would subsequently leave Wesleyan to join universities with Ph.D. programs. This professional mobility has distinguished the Wesleyan government faculty since the 1950s and remains part of its texture.

With our faculty growth, Wesleyan is now more distinctive among selective liberal arts colleges than in 1960. Compared to other national liberal arts colleges, Wesleyan departments are typically larger and our curriculum correspondingly richer. Wesleyan has 10 interdepartmental majors, not including the College of Social Studies and the College of Letters. Government faculty members actively support and cross-list courses with many of these programs, including African American Studies, the College of Social Studies, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, Russian and East European Studies, and Women’s Studies.

The Government Department currently has 16 faculty positions [Current Faculty]. Five are in American politics, four in comparative politics, four in international politics, and three in normative political theory.

Faculty Holding Named Chairs

John E. Andrus Professor of Government

Elmer Eric Schattschneider, 1935-60
Sigmund Neumann, 1960-62
Clement Ellery Vose, 1962-1984
Robert C. Wood, 1991-1993
Martha Crenshaw, 1996-2002
James Donald Moon, 2002-

Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor of Global Issues and Democratic Thought

Martha Crenshaw, 2002-

Henry Luce Professor of Democratic Institutions and the Social Order

Robert C. Wood, 1983-1991

Henry Merritt Wriston Chair in Public Policy

Marc Allen Eisner, 2005-

Faculty Members of the Department of Government since 1935

List of members of the Department of Government, Wesleyan University, since its founding in 1935. Source: Alumni Record of Wesleyan University 1831-1980. Eleventh Edition, Middletown, Connecticut 1981, with subsequent additions by Richard W. Boyd. Corrections are appreciated and should be mailed to jdemicco at wesleyan.edu. Last updated: February 16, 2005.

Abizadeh, Arash. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 2000-02

Adamany, David Walter. Ph.D. LLB Assistant Professor 1967-69; Associate Professor 1969-73

Bailey, Stephen Kemp. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1946-50; Associate Professor 1950-54

Baldwin, Sidney. Ph.D. Instructor 1952-54

Bartholomew, Reginald. M.A. Instructor 1964-68

Bischoff, Ralph Frederic LLB Ph.D. Teaching Fellow 1934-35; Instructor 1935-38; Assistant Professor 1938-46

Boyd, Richard W. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1969-76; Associate Professor 1976-84; Professor 1984-2006

Bridge, Susan McCarthy. M.A. Assistant Professor 1972-76

Craig, Barbara H. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1982-88. Associate Professor 1985-95: Professor 1995-2001

Crenshaw, Martha. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1974-81; Associate Professor 1981-87; Professor 1987-

Crittenden, John Allen. B.A. Instructor 1957-59

Daley, Anthony, Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1987-94

Einaudi, Luigi Roberto. B.A. Instructor 1961-62

Eisner, Marc Allen. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1989-95; Associate Professor 1995-99; Professor 2000-

Filley, Walter Owen Jr. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1951-58

Finn, John E. J.D., Ph.D.

Foyle, Douglas C. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1998-

Gallagher, Nancy. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1990-97

Gallarotti, Giulio M. Ph.D. Assistant Professor, 1987-94; Associate Professor 1994-

Gelb, Leslie H. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1964-67

Golden, Miriam. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1984-88

Greenhill, Kelly. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 2005-

Greenstein, Fred I. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1962-66; Professor 1966-74

Grumm, John G. Ph.D. Professor 1969-1991.

Haddad, Mary Alice. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 2004-

Howard, Lise Morjé, Assistant Professot 2002-04

Herzberg, Donald Gabriel. B.A. Instructor 1948-50

Jones, Victor. Ph.D. Associate Professor 1946-50; Professor 1950-55

Lahav, Gallya. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1998-99

Liska, George. Ph.D. Professor 1963-64

Lockard, William Noble. M.A. Instructor 1950-51

Mangone, Gerald Joseph. Ph.D. Instructor 1949; Assistant Professor 1949-51

Markovits, Andrei. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1977-82

Merelman, Richard M. Ph.D. Instructor 1964-65; Assistant Professor 1965-66

McGuire, James W. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1988-95; Associate Professor 1995-2003; Professor 2003-

Moon, James Donald. Ph.D. Instructor 1970-71; Assistant Professor 1971-77; Associate Professor 1977-83; Professor 1983-

Murphy, James Thomas. Ph.D. Lecturer 1968-69; Assistant Professor 1969-76

Murphy, Russell Davis. Ph.D. Instructor 1966-68; Assistant Professor 1968-70; Associate Professor 1970-78; Professor 1978-

Naruck, Henry John. LLB Instructor 1954-55

Neumann, Sigmund. Ph.D. LLD Economics & Social Science. Lecturer 1934-39 Government & Social Science. Associate Professor 1939-44 Social Sciences. Professor 1944-60

Newbury, M. Catherine Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1977-85; Associate Professor, 1985-86

Norris, Steven. M.A. Instructor 1970-73

Overstreet, Alan Burr. M.A. Instructor 1941-46; Assistant Professor 1946-47

Owens, John Robert. M.A. Instructor 1955-56

Palamountain, Joseph Cornwall. Ph.D. LHD Associate Professor 1955-59; Professor 1959-65

Panning, William. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1976-80

Payne, James L. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1966-70

Polsby, Nelson W. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1961-64; Associate Professor 1964-67; Professor 1967-68

Platt, James Worthington. M.A. Instructor 1956-59

Prescott, Francis Calvin M.A. Instructor 1947-48

Price, Melanye T. Ph.D. Predoctoral Fellow 2003; Assistant Professor 2003-

Rosengren, Orvar Arne. M.A. Instructor 1947-48

Rutland, Peter. Ph.D. Associate Professor 1992-98; Professor 1998-

Sanford, Thomas Michael. M.A. Instructor 1959-61; Assistant Professor 1961-65

Schattschneider, Elmer Eric. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1930-35; Associate Professor 1935-39; John E. Andrus Associate Professor 1935-39; John E. Andrus Professor 1939-60

Schumacher, Edward Jay. Ph.D. Lecturer 1969-70; Assistant Professor 1970-77

Schwartz, Nancy. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1977-85; Associate Professor 1985-95; Professor 1995-

Sigal, Leon V. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1973-77; Associate Professor 1977-83; Professor 1983-88.

Silverstein, Joseph. Ph.D. Instructor 1958-59; Assistant Professor 1959-64

Spegele, Roger D. Ph.D. Lecturer 1967-69; Assistant Professor 1969-72

Sweeney, John Worth Jr. Ph.D. Lecturer 1969-1972; Assistant Professor 1972-77

Taylor, Paul Bennett. M.A. Instructor 1939-41

Tenzer, Morton Jay M.A. Instructor 1957-62

Titus, David Anson Ph.D. Lecturer 1966-70; Assistant Professor 1970-73; Associate Professor 1973-79; Professor 1979-2003

Tökes, Rudolf. Ph.D. Instructor 1964-65; Assistant Professor 1965-70

Vose, Clement Ellery Ph.D. Associate Professor 1958-61; Professor 1961-84

Watts, Gerry G.. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1984-89

Wedeen, Lisa. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1996-97

Weltman, John J. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1967-71

Verdeja, Ernesto. Ph.D. Instructor 2004; Assistant Professor 2005-

Wiliarty, Sarah Elise. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 2002-

Williams, Oliver Perry. M.A. Assistant Professor 1955-57

Wood, Robert C. Ph.D. Professor 1983-93

Young, Brigitta. Ph.D. Assistant Professor 1991-96