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Faculty and Staff

Faculty
James A. Thurber
Director, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies
Candice J. Nelson
Director, Campaign Management Institute
Brian F Schaffner
Research Director, Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies

Adjunct Faculty
Patrick J. Griffin - Academic Director, Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute
Janet Katowitz - Mundy Katowitz Media, Inc.
Carol Whitney - Republican Program Coordinator
Thomas B. Williams - Williams Group

Staff
Jeremy Lupoli - Internet Systems Manager
Andrew D. Maletz - Senior Administrative Assistant

Graduate Assistants
Brian Keith Brown - Assistant Director, Campaign Management Institute
Alicia Kolar Prevost - Research Assistant, Professor Thurber

Visiting Scholars
Maik Bohne - Visiting Scholar
Qingsi Li - Former Visiting Scholar
Robert Matschoss - Former Visiting Research Fellow
John E. Owens - Visiting Research Fellow
Christian Vaccari - Former Visiting Scholar
Liping Zhang - Former Visiting Scholar

Research Fellows
Gary J. Andres - President, The Dutko Group
Maryann Barakso - Research Fellow
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum - Columnist/Staff Writer, Washington Post
Senator Max Cleland - Former Research Fellow
Christine DeGregorio - Research Fellow
Robert F Durant - Faculty Fellow
R. Sam Garrett - Analyst, Congressional Research Service
Anna Greenberg - Vice President, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research
Patrick Griffin - Research Fellow
Susan Webb Hammond - Research Fellow
Robert L. Healy - Principal & Senior Director, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates
David Lublin - Research Fellow
Walter J. Oleszek - Senior Specialist, Congressional Research Service
Costas Panagopoulos - Research Fellow
David Skaggs - Research Fellow

Executive Board
Kim Alfano - Alfano Communications*
Gary Andres - The Dutko Group, Inc.
Kenneth E. Bentsen - Senior Advisor, Public Strategies, Inc.*
Michael Berman - The Duberstein Group
Jeffrey Birnbaum - The Washington Post
Glen Bolger - Public Opinion Strategies*
Joel Bradshaw - National Education Association
Susan Bryant - Research/Strategy/Management
Jay Bryant - Research/Strategy/Management
Timothy Clark - Government Executive
Charles Cook - Cook Political Report
Anita Dunn - The Houser Group
Rob Engel - National Committee for an Effective Congress*
Paul Equale - Equale and Associate
Frank Fahrenkopf - American Gaming Association
Ron Faucheux - American Institutes of Architects
Tony Fazio - President and Founder, Winning Directions
Wilma Goldstein - Office of Women's Business Ownership
Patrick Griffin -
Martin Hamburger - Laguens Hamburger Stone
Robert Healy - Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates
James Lauer - Lauer Research, Inc.*
Mark Lotwis - Strother Duffy Strother*
Terence McAuliffe - Democratic National Committee
Raymond McGrath - Downey McGrath Group
Robert Merry - Congressional Quarterly
Candice Nelson - American University
Gary Nordlinger - Nordlinger and Associates*
Tom O'Donnell - Doak, Carrier, O'Donnell & Associates
Richard H. Rosenzweig - Natsource, LLC
Steven Stockmeyer - Stockmeyer and Company
William Sweeney, Jr. - EDS*
James A. Thurber - Chairman
Martin Tolchin -
Anne Wexler - Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates
Carol Whitney - Whitney and Associates, Inc.

Academic Board
Richard A. Baker - Historian, U.S. Senate, Historical Office
Jon R. Bond - Texas A&M University
Charles S. Bullock III - University of Georgia
Colin Campbell - University of British Columbia
David T. Canon - University of Wisconsin
Joseph Cooper - Johns Hopkins University
Roger H. Davidson - University of Maryland, Emeritus
Christopher Deering - George Washington University
Christine DeGregorio - American University
Lawrence C. Dodd - University of Florida
George C. Edwards III - Texas A&M University
Diana Evans - Trinity College
Richard Fenno - University of Rochester
Louis Fisher - Congressional Research Service
Jeff Gill - University of California, Davis
Susan Webb Hammond - American University
Paul S. Herrnson - University of Maryland
Charles O. Jones - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Emeritus
Burdett Loomis - University of Kansas
David Magleby - Brigham Young University
Thomas E. Mann - The Brookings Institution
Terry M. Moe - Stanford University
Candice J. Nelson - American University
Walter Oleszek - Congressional Research Service, LOC
Bruce L. Oppenheimer - Vanderbilt University
Norman J. Ornstein - American Enterprise Institute
Samuel C. Patterson - Ohio State University, Emeritus
Ronald M. Peters - University of Oklahoma
James P. Pfiffner - George Mason University
Nelson W. Polsby - University of California-Berkeley
Lyn Ragsdale - University of Arizona
Bert Rockman - University of Pittsburgh
David Rosenbloom - American University
Catherine E. Rudder - George Mason University
Thomas O. Sargentich - AU-Washington College of Law
Barbara Sinclair - University of California-Los Angeles
James A. Thurber - Chairman
Stephen Wayne - Georgetown University

Consultants
Kris Amundson - Delegate, Virginia 44th
Bob Bauer - Perkins Coie
Bob Blaemire - Catalist LLC
Nancy Bocskor - The Nancy Bocskor Company
Tom Bonier - National Committee for an Effective Congress
Bruce Cain - Dir., Institute for Governmental Studies, UCB
Stephen C. Craig - Dir., Political Campaigning Program, UF
David Dulio - Assistant Prof. of Pol. Sci., Oakland University
John Green - Dir., Bliss Institute of Applied Pol., U. of Akron
Janet Katowitz - Mundy Katowitz Media, Inc.
Robin Kolodny - Associate Prof.of Pol. Science, Temple U.
Burdett Loomis - Professor of Political Science, U. of Kansas
Stephen K. Medvic - Associate Professor of Political Science, Franklin and Marshall College
Jef Pollock - Global Strategy Group
David H. Rosenbloom - Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, American University
Stuart Rothenberg - Rothenberg Political Report
Sheldon Smith - Sheldon Smith Inc.
Steve Stenberg - The Strategy Group
Marty Stone - Stone's Phones


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