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CURRICULUM VITA STEPHEN SKOWRONEK Department of Political Science Box 208301, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut 06520 203-432-5272 [email protected] EDUCATION: A.B. Oberlin College, 1973 M.A. Cornell University, 1976 Ph.D. Cornell University, 1979 INTERNATIONAL APPOINTMENTS AND FELLOWSHIPS: Winant Visiting Professor of American Government, Rothermere American Institute, Balliol College Oxford University, 2019. French-American Foundation Chair in American Civilization, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1996-1997 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Fellow, 1985-1986 AWARDS AMD HONORS Legacy Award, 2017 for The Politics Presidents Make, 2017 APSA Executive Politics and thePresidency section: for a book at least a decade past publication that to continues to influence scholarship. Mary Parker Follett Prize, Best Article 2009, “Conservative Insurgency and Presidential Power” Harvard Law Review, June 2009, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association, September, 2010. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, inducted 2004 J. David Greenstone Prize, Best Book in Politics and History, The Politics Presidents Make, APSA 1994 Richard E. Neustadt Prize, Best Book on the Presidency, The Politics Presidents Make, APSA 1994 Phi Kappa Phi, 1977 Graduate Distinction in Government, 1976 John L. Senior Fellowship in American Government, 1974-1975 Herbert Lehman Fellowship in the Social Sciences, 1973-1977 Chapman Starr Prize for Excellence in the Social Sciences, 1973 Highest Honors in Government, Oberlin College, 1973 Phi Beta Kappa, 1972 APPOINTMENTS: Resident fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Center for the Study of American Politics 2012- present (Associate Fellow, 1993-2012) Acting Chair, Department of Political Science, 2010-11 Director of Graduate Studies, Political Science Department, Yale University, 2003-06 2 Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science, 1998-present Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science Department, Yale University, 1989-1994 American Studies affiliation, Yale University, 1989-present Professor, Yale University, 1986-present Associate Professor, UCLA, 1982-1985 Assistant Professor, UCLA, 1978-1982 Instructor, Cornell University, 1977 EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Wilbur Cross Award selection committee, 2020 Academic Exchange, Israel, August 17-23, 2019 Balliol College, Oxford, Concilium, Jan-June, 2019 Guest Editor, Special Issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly, featuring new work in presidential history, 2014 Editorial Advisory Board, American Political Science Review, 2007-2011 Chair, Social Science Degree Committee, Yale University, 2004-6 Outside Examiner for SUNY Albany’s assessment of their Political Science Department, March 25-26 2004. “The Presidency and American Democracy” On Camera interview for PBS documentary by Kunhardt Productions, Inc. Mt Kisco New York, aired October 2004. American Politics and History Initiative, Executive Council, Russell Sage Foundation 2000- Council of Scholars, Center for the Study of the Presidency, 1998- Chief academic advisor and lead consultant for episode structure and thematic organization, The American President, a ten-part mini-series produced for public television by Kunhardt Productions, Inc., Mt. Kisco, New York, premier April 2000. President, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association, 1994-1995 Founder and Managing Editor, Studies in American Political Development, 1986-2007, Journals Division Cambridge University Press Convener, Seminar on American Political and Institutional Development, Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, 1987-1993 Editorial Advisory Board, American Political Science Review, 2008- Editorial Board, Congress & the Presidency, 1994- Editorial Board, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 1987 Editorial Board, Polity, 1987-1993 Editorial Board, Presidential Studies Quarterly, 1986- Member, American Political Science Association Member, Social Science History Association Member, American Historical Association APSA President’s ad hoc committee on renaming the “Woodrow Wilson” prize, May 2016. BOOKS: Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic, The Deep State and the Unitary Executive, with John Dearborn and Desmond King, Oxford University Press, forthcoming Feb, 2021 Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal (Kansas, 2008, 2010); expanded third edition, 2020 3 The Policy State: An American Predicament (with Karen Orren) Harvard University Press, 2017. The Progressives’ Century: Democratic Reform, Constitutional Government and the Modern American State edited volume (with Bruce Ackerman and Stephen Engel), Yale University Press, 2016, paperback 2017. Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency, edited volume (with Norman Ornstein, Maxillian Angerholzer, III and James Kitfield) The Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, 2016. Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. (edited volume with Matt Glassman). Institutions: The Art of the State, NYU Press, 2005 (edited volume with Dan Galvin and Ian Shapiro). The Search for American Political Development, with Karen Orren (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004) The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush, (Cambridge: Belknap, Harvard University Press, 1993); Second edition, From John Adams to Bill Clinton (1997). Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877-1920, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982). CONFERENCES ORGANIZED “The Trump Presidency in American Political Development” with Desmond King, Rothermere American Institute, Nuffield College and Balliol College, Oxford University, June 13-14, 2019. The Progressives’ Century: Political Reform and Constitutional Government in the United States (with Bruce Ackerman and Stephen Engel), jointly sponsored by ISPS and the Yale Law School, November, 1-2 2013 Political Action and Political Change: Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Agents in America’s Political Development, (With Matt Glassman), sponsored by the Yale Center for the Study of American Politics, October 22-23, 2004. Crafting and Operating Institutions, (with Dan Galvin and Ian Shapiro) sponsored by Yale University Department of Political Science, April 11-13, 2003. 4 ARTICLES, ESSAYS, REVIEWS: “The Adaptability Paradox: Constitutional Resilience and Principles of Good Government in Twenty-First Century America” (with Karen Orren) Perspectives on Politics June 2020 (online publication fall 2019). “Mobilization, Management and the Modern American Presidency,” The Unprecedented American Presidency: From Constitutional Foundations to Contemporary Practice, Thomas Sanders ed., Palgrave, 2020. “Political Leadership in the American Presidency: Four Temporalities” in Klaus Geotz, ed. Oxford Handbook of Time and Politics, online version Winter 2020. “Barack Obama and the Promise of Transformational Leadership,” lead essay in Obama’s Fractured Legacy: The Politics and Policy of an Embattled Presidency, Francois de Chantal and Jean-Christian Venel, Edinbugh University Press, 2020. “The Problem of Presidentialism,” in Democracy Unchained, David Orr, ed., New Press, 2020. “The Case for Context,” in Richard Ellis and Michael Nelson, Debating the Presidency, Trump update. 2020 “Present At the Creation: The State in Early American Political History” Journal of Early American History 38 (Spring 2018). “January 2017: What Time Is It?” Miller Center First Year Project, http:/firstyear2017.org/essay/what-time-is-it; revised for print in Crucible: The President’s First Year, University of Virginia Press, 2018. “On Relic,” symposium review, Journal of Politics, Fall 2017. “The Next Four Years,” Yale Alumni Magazine, Jan/Feb 2017. “Is Donald Trump The Great Disruptor?” op. ed. Washington Post April 24, 2017. “The Unsettled State of Presidential History,” in Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approached to the American Presidency, Brian Balogh, ed. Cornell University Press, 2015. “Forward” with Bruce Miroff, for the reissue of Disenchanted Realists: Political Science and the American Crisis by Raymond Seidelman. SUNY Press, 2015 “Twentieth Century Remedies” Boston University Law Review, May, 2014 “Rethinking Presidential Studies Through Historical Research” with Bruce Miroff, in Presidential Studies Quarterly, special issue on presidential history, Stephen Skowronek And Bruce Miroff, eds. forthcoming, March 2014 “Pathways to the Present: Political Development in America” in the Oxford Handbook on American Political Development. Robert Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, Richard 5 Valelley, eds. Oxford University Press, online publication 2014; print publication 2015. “Conservative Insurgency, Constitutional Construction, and the Development of Presidential Power,” in The Presidency and the Political System, Michael Nelson, ed. Congressional Quarterly Press, 2013 “Have We Abandoned A ‘Constitutional Perspective’ on American Political Development” with Karen Orren, Journal of Politics, Spring 2011. “Is Transformational Leadership Still Possible: Barack Obama in Historical Perspective” in Presidential Leadership in Political Time, second expanded edition, Kansas 2010. “Shall We Cast Our Lot With the Constitution? Thinking About Presidential Power in the 21st Century” in The Future of the Presidency, Charles Dunn, ed. Kansas, 2010. “Barack Obama and the Changing Political Structures of