John H. Aldrich, Council 2003-05 Duke University

John H. Aldrich, Duke University
Council 2003-05

John H. Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University, and adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He previously taught at Michigan State University and the University of Minnesota, before moving to Duke in 1987. Aldrich received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1975. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and at the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio.

Aldrich is the author of Before the Convention and Why Parties? (both published by the University of Chicago Press) and co-author with Paul Abramson and David Rohde of the election series, the most recently published of which is Change and Continuity in the 2000 and 2002 Elections (CQ Press), among other books. He is currently co-writing three book-length manuscripts, including one on political parties and the U.S. Congress with Rohde, one on party competition in the South with John Griffin, and one (with numerous co-authors) on economic globalization and democratic politics. He is also author of numerous articles and book chapters. He is the recipient or co-recipient of the Eulau, Kammerer, CQ Press, and Pi Sigma Alpha awards.

Aldrich has served as Secretary of this Association, chair of the Woodrow Wilson Book Award Committee, and as member and chair of this Association's Nominating Committee. He is past president of the Southern Political Science Association and is currently president-elect of the Midwest Political Science Association. He and John Sullivan edited the American Journal of Political Science.