Harry L. Wilson (born 1957) is a professor of political science at
Roanoke College
Roanoke College is a private liberal arts college in Salem, Virginia. It has approximately 2,000 students who represent approximately 40 states and 30 countries. The college offers 35 majors, 57 minors and concentrations, and pre-professional pr ...
, director of the college’s Center for Community Research, and author of the book ''Guns, Gun Control, and Elections: The Politics and Policy of Firearms''.
Early life and education
Wilson graduated from
Pennsylvania State University in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in journalism, earned a master's degree in political science from Penn State University in 1983, and a doctorate in political science in 1988 from
Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...
.
He was employed as a bartender during college.
Career
His book, ''Guns, Gun Control, and Elections'' explains how current gun control policy was adopted by discussing the roles and interactions of elected officials, interest groups, political parties, and the citizens.
Wilson devotes a chapter of the book specifically to gun policy in the Commonwealth of Virginia A sabbatical in 2003 provided Wilson the time to attend several
Virginia General Assembly
The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the oldest continuous law-making body in the Western Hemisphere, the first elected legislative assembly in the New World, and was established on July 30, 16 ...
sessions where he interviewed legislators and lobbyists. According to Wilson, because of Virginia’s proximity to the nation’s capital and the diversity of its citizens, and because it is home to the
National Rifle Association, the state is in a position to influence national gun control policy.
WSKG-FM
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...
, an affiliate of
NPR
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, interviewed Wilson in 2017 to look at various perspectives of the gun control issue.
Awards
Wilson received a Fulbright Lecturing Award to Russia in 1995.
Books
He has written three books about gun control, including: ''Gun Politics in America: Historical and Modern Documents in Context'', released in 2016 by ABC-CLIO; ''The Triumph of the Gun-Rights Argument: Why the Gun Control Debate Is Over'', released in 2015 by
Praeger Publishing
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2015; and ''Guns, Gun Control, and Elections: The Politics and Policy of Firearms'', released from Rowman & Littlefield Publishing in 2007.
References
External links
Dr. Harry L. Wilson bio, Roanoke College
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Living people
1957 births
Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications alumni
Rutgers University alumni
Roanoke College faculty