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Brief History
By Richard W. Boyd, Professor of Government, February, 2005
A Brief History of the Department
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
Henry Luce Professor
of Democratic Institutions and the Social Order
- Robert C. Wood, 1983-1991
Henry Merritt Wriston Chair in Public Policy
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
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