David William Rohde (born June 4, 1944)
is an American political scientist and the
Ernestine Friedl
Ernestine Friedl (August 13, 1920 – October 12, 2015) was an American anthropologist, author, and professor. She served as the president of both the American Ethnological Society (1967) and the American Anthropological Association (1974–1975). ...
Professor of
Political Science
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in the
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Duke University. Founded in 1838, it is the original school of the university. Currently, Trinity is one of three undergraduate degree programs at Duke, the others ...
at
Duke University
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. He has researched various aspects of
American politics
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, including the
Supreme Court
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and
Congress
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. Before joining the faculty at Duke, he taught at
Michigan State University
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(MSU) from 1970 to 2005.
At MSU, he started the program "Political Institutions and Public Choice", which focused on encouraging collaborative research between faculty members and students. He started the same program at Duke when he joined their faculty in July 2005.
He was the
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
of the ''
American Journal of Political Science
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'' from 1988 to 1990.
Honors and awards
In 2000, Rohde was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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. In 2010, he received the
Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award from the Political Organizations and Parties Section of the
American Political Science Association
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.
References
External links
Faculty page
Living people
1944 births
Scientists from Buffalo, New York
Duke University faculty
American political scientists
Canisius College alumni
University of Rochester alumni
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Political science journal editors
Michigan State University faculty
20th-century American scientists
20th-century social scientists
21st-century American scientists
21st-century social scientists
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