Alan Schechter (born 1936) is a political scientist. He is

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at Wellesley College in

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. He was educated at Amherst College, where he received his AB, and at

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, where he earned his PhD. Schechter was Hillary Rodham's advisor during her years at Wellesley College and supervised her senior thesis; Susan Estrich's book '' The Case for Hillary Clinton'' mentions her experience also writing an honors thesis for Schechter (at a different time). He remains involved with the college, running the Wellesley in Washington internship program, in which Rodham participated as a student and which continues to send approximately twenty women to

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for internships each summer. Schechter is the former Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (

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), a Presidential appointment.

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Wellesley faculty bio
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