Kenneth Janda

Résumé August, 2001

Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science

Office Telephone: (847) 491-2634

Department of Political Science

Office Fax: (847) 491-8985

Northwestern University

e-mail: k-janda@northwestern.edu

Evanston, IL 60208

Born November 14, 1935

Married, grown children

Education

1957

B.S., Education, Illinois State University

1961

Ph.D., Government, Indiana University-- Dissertation Topic: "Democratic Theory and Legislative Behavior: A Study of Representative-Constituency Relationships"

Academic Appointments

1961-66

Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

1966-69

Associate Professor, Northwestern University

1969-

Professor, Northwestern University

1970-71

Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania

1971

Visiting Scholar, University of Essex

1973-74

Chair, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University

1980-82

Chair, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University (2nd term)

1984

Acting Director, Vogelback Computing Center, Northwestern University

1987-

Payson S. Wild Chair in Political Science, Northwestern University

1993-94

Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Budapest University of Economic Sciences

Honors

1959-61

Pre-Doctoral Fellow of the Social Science Research Council in residence at the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan.

1970-71

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania

1981-83

Chair, Political Organizations and Parties, Subfield of American Political Science Association.

1983

Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University

1983

Outstanding Alumni Award, Illinois State University

1987

EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL Award for Distinguished Software in the Social Sciences, for CROSSTABS--a computer program for American Government

1991-92

President, Computer Users Section, American Political Science Association

1992

APSA Computer Software Award, Instructional Category, for IDEAlog (with Jerry Goldman)

1993-94

John Marshall Chair in Political Science under the Fulbright Program

1995-

Co-Editor, Party Politics (with David Farrell and Ian Holliday, University of Manchester, UK)

1999

R. Barry Farrell Award for Outstanding Teacher, Department of Political Science

2000

Samuel J. Eldersveld, Lifetime Achievement Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association

Areas of Teaching and Research

Over the years, my teaching has concentrated on these subjects: American government, comparative political parties, elementary statistics, and computer methods for teaching and research. My areas of scholarly research largely coincide with these topics, concentrating more specifically on (a) political parties, (b) computer methods, and (c) American government, including methods of teaching. Although some of my writings overlap in these areas, one can evaluate my work better my considering the items under these groupings. In recent years, I have been particularly interested in politics and political science in central Europe and the Soviet Union, where our English-language American government textbook is widely used and has been translated into various languages, including Hungarian, Georgian, Czech, Slovak, and Korean. Other writings and academic activities can be found under miscellaneous.
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