Garrison Nelson Curriculum Vita CURRICULUM VITA CURRICULUM VITA NAME: Garrison Nelson PRESENT FACULTY APPINTMENT: Elliott A. Brown Green and Gold Professor of Law, Politics, and Political Behavior Department of Political Science University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont 05405 CONTACTS Phones 1-802-656-4223 UVM office 1-802-656-0758 UVM fax e-mail
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[email protected] Home 1-802-655-3789 Cell 1-802-249-7501 UVM Off EDUCATION A.B. Boston University, 1964 M.A. University of Iowa, 1966 Ph.D. University of Iowa, 1973 Dissertation Topic “Party Control Periods in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Recruitment of Its Leaders, 1789-1971” Specialized Training: University of Michigan, 1976, Interuniversity Consortium for Political Research Summer Program in Data Analysis AREAS OF INTEREST American politics and government with special emphasis on political parties and the U.S. Congress; political behavior with emphasis on socialization, leadership, and legislative voting; politics in New England and Vermont, and public policy formation and analysis with emphasis upon energy legislatio). PUBLICATIONS Books John William McCormack: A Political Biography (New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming, 2016). Pathways to the U.S. Supreme Court from the Arena to the Monastery (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) hardbound and (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Group, forthcoming, 2016). Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1993-2010, co-edited with Charles Stewart III of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Washington, D.C.: Sage/CQ Press, 2011). The book was reviewed in Booklist (December, 2010), Choice (April, 2011), and American Reference Book Annual (2011). This is an update of the 1947-1992 volumes.