Lee Sigelman
Columbian Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1973
Office: Monroe 464
Phone: (202) 994-8837
Email: lees@gwu.edu
Background
Professor Sigelman is Columbian School of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Political Science and former chair of the department. He has been recognized with the university's highest awards for scholarship and for university service, and with the American Political Science Association’s highest award for service to the discipline. He is a former editor of both the American Political Science Review and American Politics Quarterly , and is a former director of the political science program at the National Science Foundation. His teaching and research center on public opinion, mass communication, and electoral behavior, but extend in several directions, including American national government, research methods, and comparative political analysis. His books include Attack Politics (University Press of Kansas, 2008), Race and Place (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Black Americans' Views of Racial Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 1991); Nominating the President (University of Tennessee Press, 1991), Political Mythology and Popular Fiction (Greenwood Press, 1988), and he has contributed scores of articles to such journals as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics.
