Penn State Department of Political Science: Faculty Bios

Penn State Department of Political Science

Frank R. Baumgartner, Professor
	Contact Information: 227 Pond Lab University Park, PA 16802-6200 Office phone: 863-8978 frankb@psu.edu Links: Professional Website Office Hours: Please click here for this semester's office hours.

Brief Biography
Frank R. Baumgartner (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986) is the Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. He was named the first holder of the Miller-LaVigne Professorship in April 2007. He was previously Distinguished Professor (2005-2007) and Department Head (1999-2004) at Penn State, after previous positions at the University of Iowa (1986-87), Texas A&M University (1987-98), and Caltech (1998-99). He has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Michigan, Washington, Bergen (Norway) and Aberdeen (Scotland), the Institute for Public Management (Paris), Sciences Po (Paris), the European University Institute (EUI, Florence, Italy), and the Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France). He has a continuing appointment as a visiting researcher at CEVIPOF-Sciences Po in Paris, and teaches a graduate class in public policy there each June. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, the Journal of European Public Policy, and other journals. For more complete information, please click on the link entitled “Professional Website”.

Brief Biography

Frank R. Baumgartner (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986) is the Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. He was named the first holder of the Miller-LaVigne Professorship in April 2007. He was previously Distinguished Professor (2005-2007) and Department Head (1999-2004) at Penn State, after previous positions at the University of Iowa (1986-87), Texas A&M University (1987-98), and Caltech (1998-99). He has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Michigan, Washington, Bergen (Norway) and Aberdeen (Scotland), the Institute for Public Management (Paris), Sciences Po (Paris), the European University Institute (EUI, Florence, Italy), and the Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France). He has a continuing appointment as a visiting researcher at CEVIPOF-Sciences Po in Paris, and teaches a graduate class in public policy there each June. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, the Journal of European Public Policy, and other journals.

For more complete information, please click on the link entitled “Professional Website”.