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Frank R. Baumgartner is the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He joined the department in 2009 as the first holder of the Richardson professorship. A native Detroiter, he attended Detroit's Cass Technical High School and then received all his academic degrees at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (BA 1980; MA 1983, PhD 1986). He held academic positions at The University of Iowa (1986-87); Texas A&M University (1987-98); and Penn State University (1998-2009) where he served as Department Head (1999-2004), Distinguished Professor (2005-07), and then was the first holder of the Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professorship (2007-09). He has had visiting professor appointments at Caltech (1998-99) and at the universities of Michigan, Washington, Bergen (Norway), Aberdeen (Scotland), the Institute for Public Management (Paris), Sciences Po (Paris), the European University Institute (EUI, Florence, Italy), and the Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France). He has a continuing appointment as a visiting researcher at the Center for European Studies / Sciences Po in Paris, and teaches a graduate class in public policy there each May-June. At UNC, he teaches courses on public policy, agenda-setting, interest groups, lobbying, and other topics at levels ranging from first-year seminars to upper-level undergraduate to graduate. His courses typically focus on US national politics, but they can also have significant European content. His publications mirror these interests; for a full list of those, editorial board membership, honors, and the like, please see his full web page. Click here for Professor Baumgartner’s web site |
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