Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Michael Goldfield, Ph.D
Author, Speaker, Teacher
Faculty Fellow, Douglas Fraser Center for Workplace Issues Professor Emeritus, Wayne State University
Education: William College B.A. with honors (Philosophy)
University of Chicago M.A. (Philosophy) M.A. (Political Science) Ph.D. (Political Science), 1984
Labor Organizer and Agitator, 10 years
Statistical Programmer National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago,1978-1979
Systems Analyst/Programmer University of Chicago Computation Center, 1979-1980
Computer Systems Programmer and Facilities Manager Hines Veterans Administration Hospital, Chicago, 1980-1984
Faculty Fellow Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1987-1988
Assistant Professor Government Department, Cornell University, 1984-1992
Senior Research Associate Center for Labor-Management Policy Studies, City University of New York, Graduate Center, 1989-1993
Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, Wayne State University, 1992-2018 Professor of Urban and Labor Studies, College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs; Political Science; African American Studies
Visiting Professor Social Science Research Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1998-1999
Visiting Professor Department of Economics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 2001-2002
Faculty Fellow, Douglas Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, Wayne State University, 2011- present
Affiliate Faculty Appointment, College of Public Policy, International Relations, and Political Science, George Mason University, 2013-present
Member of HPN (Hypertension) Think Tank, Wayne State University Medical School, 2017- present.
Professional Society Memberships:
American Political Science Association (APSA) Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) Midwest Political Science Association (MWPSA) Political Methodology Society Union of Radical Political Economists Southern Historical Association Labor and Working Class History Association Historians of American Communism
Honors/Awards:
Williams College B.A. with honors
National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Fellowship in Political Science, University of Chicago
Outstanding Performance Award from Hospital Director, Hines Veterans Administration Hospital, 1981
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)/Sloan Foundation Grant, 1984-1987
Cornell Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 1985
Cornell/IBM Project EZRA Grant, 1985-1988
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Summer Research (in Germany) Grant, 1986
Humanities Faculty Research Grant, Cornell University, 1987-1988
Jonathon R. Meigs Research Grants, 1984-1992
American Council of Learned Societies Research Grant, 1991-1992
Cornell/National Science Foundation (NSF) Supercomputer Grant, 1987-1994
German Marshall Fund of the United States Grant, 1996
Wayne State Humanities Center Fellowship Grant, 1996
Program in Mediating Theory and Dispute Resolution Grant, 1997
CULMA Faculty Research Grant, 1997
Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Fellow, 2002-2003 (declined)
Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, 2005
Wayne State Humanities Center Faculty Fellow, 2006-2007
Recognition for book Decline of Organized Labor: Chosen as a “Social Science Book of the Month” for September/October, 1987 by Society. Selected as one of the Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics for 1987, by the Princeton University Industrial Relations Section 1988.
Union of Radical Political Economists (URPE) executive Board recommendation in Winter, 1988, URPE Newsletter.
Chosen as one of the four books recommended by the editors of Challenge magazine (November/December, 1988) for readers interested in unionism.
Recommended by the editors of Politics and Society, December, 1988.
Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, 2005
III. Selected Publications
A. Scholarly Books Published:
Authored
The Myth of Capitalism Reborn: A Marxist Critique of Theories Of Capitalist Restoration in the USSR (with Melvin Rothenberg. Soviet Union Study Project, San Francisco, 1980
The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States. University of Chicago Press. (Paperback edition, 1989; Spanish edition, El Declive del Sindicalismo en Estados Unidos, Ministerio de Trabajo, Spain, 1992), 1987.
The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics. New Press, 1997.
Globalization, Labour, and the State, co-edited with Debdas Banerjee, Routledge (simultaneous publication in the U.S., U.K, and Canada, forthcoming in India), 2008.
The Golden Key (to Understanding America): Southern Labor in the 1930s and 1940s (forthcoming)
Against the Stream, Dissenting Essays in the Social Sciences. Includes mostly previously unpublished work; have several offers from publishers, but may publish it simultaneously with the above (forthcoming; completed).
Entwined Fates: the North American Labor Movements (in progress)
B. Chapters Published:
Goldfield, M. 2009. “Communism in America,” International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest (Wiley), edited by Immanuel Ness.
Goldfield, M. And Hamlin, M. 2009. “The League of Revolutionary Black Workers,” International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest (Wiley), edited by Immanuel Ness.
Goldfield, M. “Der Einfluss von Globalisierung und Neoliberalismus auf den Nidergang der organisierten Arbeiterschaft in den USA,” in Spielarten des Neoliberalismus Ingo Schmidt (Hrsg.), 2008.
Goldfield, M. 2008. “Globalization, Neo-Liberalism, and the Decline of U.S. Labor Organizations,” in Globalization, Labour, and the State, co-edited with Debdas Banerjee, Routledge,
Goldfield M. and Banerjee, Debdas. 2008. “Neo-liberal Globalization, Labour, and the State,” in above, Globalization, Labour, and the State.
Goldfield, M. 2006. “Achilles Heel and the Tortoise: Race and the U.S. Labor Movement,” in Labor and Race, co-edited by Manning Marable, Joseph Wilson, and Immanuel Ness, Rowland and Littlefield (2006).
“The Communist Party” in Encyclopedia of Poverty and Social Welfare, edited by Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor, ABC- CLIO Press, 2004. (Refereed)
“Race and Class in the United States in the 21st Century,” in Race in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Curtis Stokes, Michigan State University Press, 2004. (Refereed Conference Volume)
“The Communist Party, U.S.A.” in Ronald Hayduk, et al. Encyclopedia of Third World Political Parties. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.
“U.S. Labor Unions and Minority Workers,” in Rising from the Ashes? Labor In the Age of Global Capitalism, edited by Ellen Meiksins Wood, and Michael Yates, Monthly Review Press, 1999.
“U.S. Unions, Racial Discrimination, and the Post-World War II Social Contract,” Along Ethnic Lines: Multicultural Solidarity in the Labor Movement, edited by Cristof Scherrer and Boy Luthje, (Berlin: Lars Maischak), 1997: 64-87.
“The Limits of Rational Choice Theory,” in Rational Choice Marxism, edited by Terrell Carver and Paul Thomas (Maximillan), 1996: 275: 300.
“Was There a Golden Age of the CIO: Race, Solidarity, and Union Growth During the 1930s and 1940s,” in Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change, 1960s-1990s, edited by Glenn Perusek and Kent Worcester (Humanities Press), 1995: 78-110.
“The Failure of Operation Dixie: A Critical Turning Point in American Political Development,” in Race, Class, and Community Southern Labor History, edited by Gary Fink and Merl Reed (University of Alabama Press), 1994: 166-189.
“The Color of Politics in the United States: White Supremacy as the Main Explanation for the Peculiarities of American Politics from Colonial Times to the Present, “ in The Bounds of Race: Colonial Relations in Culture and History, edited by Dominick LaCapra. (Cornell University Press), 1991: 104-133.
“Recent Historiography of the Communist Party USA” in The Year Left: An American Socialist Yearbook, edited by Michael Sprinker and Mike Davis, Verso (New Left Books), 1986: 315-358.
Journal Articles Published:
Refereed Journals
Melcher, C. Goldfield, M. 2019 "The Myth of Section 7(a): Worker Militancy, Progressive Labor Legislation, and the Coal Miners," forthcoming in Labor, 2019
Goldfield, M. “What did Leo Strauss Really Believe?” forthcoming in a special issue of Constellations on Leo Strauss, edited by Alan Gilbert.
Goldfield, Michael. Forthcoming. “Neoliberalism and the Global Economic Crisis,” Indian Journal of Labour Economics.
Melcher, C. Goldfield, M. 2018. “The Transformation of the U.S. Working Class (under review)
Goldfield, M., Bromsen, A. 2013. “The Changing Landscape of American Unions,” Annual Review of Political Science, June, 2013
Goldfield, Michael. 2010. “Retrospective on David Greenstone’s Labor in American Politics,” Polity, June.
Goldfield, Michael. Spring, 2009. “The Effects of Neoliberalism on Labour in the United States with Some Comparative Notes on India,” Artha Vijnana (India).
Goldfield, M.“The Racial Divide and Labor in the U.S.” Working USA, September, 2008 (11:3)
Goldfield, M. and Palmer, Bryan. “Canada’s Workers’ Movement: Uneven Developments,” in Labour/du Travail, June, 2007.
Goldfield, M. 2001. A review essay of Dana Frank’s work, including her recent Purchasing Power In American Historical Review, April, 2001. (Refereed)
“Rebounding Unions Target Service Section.” Population Today. October, 2000
Symposium article on Paul Buhle’s labor book Taking Care of Business, New Politics, Winter 2000.
“Black Liberation, Working Class, Unity, and the Popular Front,” Against the Current, 78, January/February, 1999.
“Lipset’s Union Democracy After 40 Years,”Extensions, Spring, 1998: 22-26.
“Assessing Union Leaderships,”Against the Current, 70, September/October, 1997.
“Race and U.S. Labor,” Monthly Review, Summer 1997: 80-97.
“The Limits of Rational Choice Theory.” National Political Science Review. Volume 6, 1997. Also published as a chapter in Rational Choice Marxism, edited by Terrell Carver and Paul Thomas. (Macmillian) 1996: 205-228.
“Race and the CIO Revisited-Reply to Critics.” International Labor and Working Class History, 45, September, 1994: 142-160.
“Race and the CIO.” International Labor and Working Class History, 44, September, 1993, the central discussion piece for entire issue: 1-32.
“Strike Rates and Public Policy during the 1930's.” Labor Law Journal. 42, 8 (August), 1991.
“Class, Race, and Politics in the United States.” Research in Political Economy, 1990. Also in Paul Zarembka, An Introduction to Modern American Political Economy, JAI Press, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1998: 83-127.
“Explaining New Deal Labor Policy.” American Political Science Review. December, 1990: 1297-1315.
“Public Sector Union Sector Growth and Public Policy.” Policy Studies Journal. Winter, 1989-90: 404-420.
“Worker Insurgency, Radical Organization, and New Deal Labor Legislation.” American Political Science Review. December, 1989. Reprinted as an occasional paper by the Center for Labor-Management Policy Studies, City University of New York, 1990: 1257-1282.
Review essay of Rubel on Marx, edited by J.J. O’Malley and of The Making of Marx’s Capital by Roman Rosdolski, The Insurgent Sociologist. Spring, 1986: 1-3.
“Labor in American Politics-Its Current Weakness.” Journal of Politics. February, 1986: 2-29.
“How Unions Benefit Society,” review essay of “What Do Unions Do?” by Richard Freeman and James Medoff, Socialist Review. July, 1985: 165-174.
“The Causes of U.S. Trade Union Decline and their Future Prospects,” Research in Political Economy. VII 1984: 81-159.
With R.W. Lambert, Jr., M.D., “A Structured Analysis of a Blind Rehabilitation Database,” The Datatrieve Examiner, 1984: 16-34.
“The Decline of the Communist Party and the Black Question in the U.S.” 1980. Review of Radical Political Economics. 12:1.
Review essay of Barrington Moore’s “Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy,” Our Generation (Canadian), Fall, 1968: 131-138.
D. Book reviews Published:
2. Academic Journals
Melcher, C. And Goldfield, M. 2018. XXXXXXX
Timothy Minchin, Forging a Common Bond, Labor and Environmental Activism during the BASF Lockout, for Industrial and Labor Relations Review, April, 2004
Elizabeth Sanders’ Roots of Reform, Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917. American Political Science Review. September, 2001
Buy American, by Dana Frank, American Historical Review, June, 2001
Labor Visions and State Power, by Victoria Hattam, American Political Science Review, September, 1994.
Radicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the American Political Economy by Richard Valelly, D. International Labor and Working Class History, Fall, 1991.
Democratic Individuality by Alan Gilbert, American Political Science Review, June, 1991.
Bitter Choices: Blue Collar Women In and Out of Work by Ellen Israel Rosen, Labor/Travail, Spring, 1989.
Power, Production, and the Unprotected Worker by Jeffrey Harrod, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January, 1989.
H. Papers Presented:
1.Invited and/or refereed Internationally or Nationally in the Last five Years:
Lecture on Working Class Roots of Trumpism, Wayne State, 2018.
Edward Cliffle Memorial Lecture, AFSCME, 2017.
Presentation at the Hypertension Think Tank, Wayne State University Medical School, 2017
Mike Hamlin Memorial Lecture, Detroit, 2017.
Invited Lecture, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 2015 North American Labor History Conference presentation, Wayne State University, Detroit, 2015
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2015
International Meeting, Labor and Working Class History Association, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 3 panels, 2015
3 invited talks, New York University, New York City, NY, 2015
3 invited talks at the University of London, England, 2014
Invited University lecture, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2014
Address to British Columbia Central Labour Council, Vancouver, Canada, 2014
North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State, 2014
Labor and Working Class History Conference, New York City, 2013
American Political Science Association presenter, Chicago, 2013
Invited Lecture, University of Chicago, 2013 North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State, 2013
Invited Lecture, George Mason University, co-sponsored by Dept of Political Science and Public Policy Institute, 2012
Lecture at Conference on How Class Works, SUNY Stoneybrook, NY 2012
Panelist (two), Left Forum, Case University, New York City, 2012
Panelist/presenter, Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, 2012
Presenter, Left Forum, Case University, New York City, 2011
Invited Lecture, Race in the 21st Century Conference, Michigan State University, 2011
American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting Panel Speaker (Two Panels), Toronto, 2009.
Lecture Series at Gokhale Institute for Politics and Economics, Pune, India 2009.
Plenary Speaker, Indian Society of Labour Economics Jubilee Meeting, Lucknow, India 2009,
Puck Forum Lecture, New York University (2008)
Speaker at conference “How Class Works”, SUNY, Stoneybrook (2008)
Panelist and Presenter, Organization of American Historians, New York City (2008)
Special Lecture, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia (2007)
Invited lecture, University of Victoria, British Columbia (2007) American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting Panel Speaker, Chicago (2007) Talk and paper presentation at Humanities Center Conference, Wayne (2007). Lecture and paper presentation, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver (2007). Plenary Speaker, North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State (2006). University of Calcutta, M. Phil. Program Special Lecture, Kolkata, India (2006) Institute for Development Studies, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India (2006) Special Lecture, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, India (2006) Lecture, Queens University, Feile Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2006) Lecture, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (2006) American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting Panel Speaker, Philadelphia, PA (2006)
Lecture at the Department of Political Science, University of Pune, India (2006) Lecture at the Gokhale Institute for Political and Economic Research, Pune, India (2006) Lecture, Department of Political Science, Central University, Hyderabad, India (2006) Presentation, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India (2006) Lecture at the 20th Century American Politics and Society Workshop, Columbia University (2006) Paper Presentation, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago (2006) Center for Urban Studies Research Seminar, Wayne State (2006) Lecture at the 20th Century American Politics and Society Workshop, Columbia University (2006) Paper Presentation, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago (2006) Conference on “Rank and File Movements of the Long 1970s,” UCLA (2005) CULMA Research Forum, Wayne State University, (2005)Plenary speaker at the American Political Science Association Meeting in Washington, D.C., commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the National Labor Relations Act, entitled “Can Federal Labor Law be Fixed,” (2005) Plenary Keynote Speaker at conference on Globalization, Labour, and the State, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India (2004) Panel speaker, Institute for Development Studies, University of Calcutta, India (2004) Colloquim, Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta, India (2004) Invited lecture, Golkale Institute for Politicals and Economics, Pune, India (2004) Colloquim, Centre for Development Studies, Thiranantharapurum, Kerala, India (2004) Race and Labor Conference, New York City (2003) North American Labor History Conference Detroit (2003) University Lecture, Tulane University, New Orleans (2002) North American Labor History Conference, Detroit (2002) American Political Science Association, San Francisco, (2001) North American Labor History Conference, Detroit (2001) Political Science Colloquium, Oxford University (2001) Industrial Relations Seminar, London School of Economics (2001) North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University (2000) Independent Politics in Global World Conference New York City (2000) American Political Science Association, Washington, DC (2000) Pacific Northwest Labor History Conference, Tacoma, Washington (2000) University Lecture, Center for Labor Studies, Seattle, WA, (2000) University Seminar on Labor, Columbia University, New York (2000) Political Science Colloquium, York University, Toronto (2000)
University speaker; and address to community forum, Africana Studies, University of Toledo (1999) American Political Science Association, Atlanta (1999) North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University (1999) Race in 21st Century America conference at Michigan State University, (1999) Political Science Department Colloquium at the University of California, Santa Cruz, (1999) Colloquium of the Institute for Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, (1999) Conference on Affirmative Action, University of Colorado, Boulder (1999) Southwest Labor Studies Conference, San Francisco (1999) American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. (1997) Center for Research on Social Organizations Colloquium, University of Michigan (1997) Southern Labor Studies Conference, Williamsburg, VA (1997) Social Science History, Washington D.C. (1997) West Chester University Lecture (1997) Ethnic Studies Colloquium, Bowling Green State University (1997) Political Science Colloquium, York University, Toronto (1997) Radical Activists and Scholars Conference, Chicago (1997) Political Science Colloquium, University of California, Irvine (1997) Humanities Center Conference, Wayne State University (1997) Center for Comparative History and Social Theory, University of California, Los Angeles (1997) University of Frankfurt, Political Science Department (1996) University of Goettingen, Political Science Department (1996) University of Bremen, Center for Social Policy Research (1996) John F. Kennedy Institute of Berlin University (1996) Humboldt University, Berlin, Volksuni (1996) North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University (1996) American Political Science Association, San Francisco (1996) Southern Historical Association, New Orleans (1995) North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University (1995) American Political Association, Chicago (1995) North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University (1994) Sociology Colloquium, University of Michigan (1994)
North American Labor History conference, Wayne State University (1993) American Political Scene Association, Washington, D.C. (1993) Southern Labor Studies Conference, Birmingham, Alabama (1993) Center for Urban Studies Lecture, Wayne State University (1993) Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago (1993) Comparative Labor Symposium, Duke University (1992) History Symposium, Duke University (1992) North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University (1992) American Political Science Association Presentation, Chicago (1992) American Political Science Association Presentation, Pittsburgh (1992) Socialist Scholars Conference Presentation (1992) Wayne State University Political Science Colloquy (1992) Elmira College Political Economy Colloquium (1991) Social Science History Association Panels, New Orleans (1991) Emory University Sociology Colloquium (1991) Southern Labor Studies Conference Presentation, Atlanta (1991) Conference on translation in the Social Sciences Presentation, SUNY- Binghamton (1991) American Political Science Association Panel, Washington, D.C. (1991) American Sociological Association Presentation, Cincinnati (1991) University of Rhode Island Labor Research Center Lecture (1991) Industrial Relations Research Association Meeting, Chicago (1991) Labour Studies Programme, invited lecture, McMasters University, Hamilton, Ontario (1990) Colgate University, Social Science Colloquium (1990) American Political Science Association Presentation, San Francisco (1990) For 1989-1990, I was one of several out-of-town invited participants in a workshop on post-World War II politics and the domestic impact of the Cold War, New School Social Research (1989-90) National Lawyers Guild lecture, New York (1990) Political Science Symposium, invited speaker, Wuppertal, West Germany (1990) University of Missouri, St. Louis, Political Science Department Colloquium (1990) Martin Luther King Day panel, orientation for new students, Cornell University (1990) New School for Social Research Presentation (1989) American Political Science Association Presentation, Atlanta (1989) American Sociological Association Presentation, San Francisco (1989)
Political Methodology Society Meeting, University of Minnesota (1989) Evergreen State College Conference on the Future of the Labor Movement, Keynote Speaker (1989) Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago (1987) Collective Bargaining Colloquium, Industrial Labor Relations School, Cornell University (1987) American Politics Workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1987) Sociology Department Colloquium, Cornell University (1987) Political Economy Colloquium, Rutgers University (1987)
IV. Service
1. University Committee Membership
Search Committee Member for Africana Studies, 1992-1994, 1996-1997 University Fellowship Committee, 1993-1994, 1996-1997 Sabbatical Leaves Committee, 1999 Wayne State University Press, Editorial Board, 1995-2004 History Department Review Advisory Panel, 2000-2001 University Hearing Committee, 2003-2004 Faculty Senate (2005-2008) University Research Committee (2005-2008) Labor@Wayne - Board Member (2009 to present) - Member of internal advisory board (2009-present) - Chair, Review Advisory Board (appointed by Provost, 2010-2011)
2. College/Department Committee Membership
Search committee Member for Director of MAIR, 1992-1993 Search committee Member for CULMA Professors, 1992-1994, 1997-1998 Search Committee Member for Reuther Archives, Director, 1999- 2000. Dean’s Advisory Salary Committee, 1992-1993 CULMA Faculty Summer Fellowship Committee, 1995 CULMA Faculty Hearing Panel, 1997-1998 CULMA Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1999-2000
CULMA/Liberal Arts Joint Promotion and Tenure Committee, chair, 1999-2000. Dean’s Salary Committee, 2002-2003 Merit Review Committee for Professors of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, Chair, 2004 CULMA Ph.D. Curriculum Committee, Chair, 2003-2005 Political Science Graduate Committee, 1999-2003, 2006-present Political Science Lecture Committee, 2010-present Chair University RAP committee, for all programs under Labor@Wayne, 2010-2011 CLAS Merit Review Committee, 2013-2016
C. Professional Consultation
1. Consulting to Public Agencies, Foundations, Professional Associations
Editorial Boards: Political Power and Social Theory, 1990-Present: Review of Radical Political Economics (elected term 1990-1999); Wayne State University Press Editorial Board, 1995-2004, Working USA, 2000-present, International Enyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, 2005-present.
Referee for the National Science Foundation; MacArthur Foundation; American Political Science Review; Journal of Politics; American Journal of Political Science; Political Science Quarterly; Western Political Quarterly; Policy Studies Journal; Polity; Government and Policy; Industrial and Labor Relations Review; Political Power and Social Theory; Review of Radical Political Economics; Social Science Quarterly; Sociological Forum; American Sociological Review; Research in Political Economy; Legislative Studies Quarterly; Cornell Society for the Humanities; Wayne State University Press; Temple University Press; Westview Press; University of Chicago Press; Princeton University Press; Duke University Press; Cornell University Press; Industrial Labor Relations Press; and Routledge Press; Labour/Le’Travail
Executive Committee member of the Hospital Automated Information Management Commission, Hines VA Hospital (HAIMC) 1980-1984
Co-Chair Labor Politics Conference 1986
Computing Committee, Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER) 1984-1988
Cornell representative to the Inter-University consortium on Political and Social
Research (ICPSR) 1984-1992
Cornell Undergraduate Admissions Committee 1988-1989
Cornell Government Department Undergraduate Committee 1988-1989
Chair, Cornell Government Department Computing Committee 1984-1992
Cornell Government Department American Politics “A” Exam Committee 1984- 1992
Faculty Mentor for the Cornell Undergraduate Minority Research Program, 1988- 1992
Faculty Mentor for the Cornell Minority graduate Fellows Program, 1989-1992
Member of the Cornell Graduate Field of Public Policy, 1988-1992
Cornell Education Policy committee, elected term, 1989-1992
American Political Science Association’s E.E. Stattschneider Award Committee (selects the best doctoral dissertation in American government), 1991.
Site Visit and Evaluation, Brooklyn college, Center for Worker Education, 2000