Marianne C. Stewart
Executive Vice- Dean, and
Professor of Government, Politics and Political Science,
E-mail: mstewart@utdallas.edu
Telephone: (972) 883-2011

Marianne C. Stewart is Professor of Government, Politics and Political Science and Executive Vice-Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. After receiving her Ph.D in Political Science from Duke University, where she held the James B. Duke Commonwealth and the James B. Duke International Studies Fellowships, and before joining the UTD faculty, she held appointments at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Rutgers University where she was a Henry Rutgers Research Fellow. AT UTD, she also has been Director of Graduate Studies, Acting Dean, and Political Science Program Director.
Dr. Stewart’s research and instructional areas are
Comparative Government and Politics, Elections, Public Opinion and Voting
Behavior, and Social Science Research Methodology. Her research has been
supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.) for the
2001/02 British Election
Study and the
2005/06 British Election Study, and by the National Science Foundation
(U.S.) for dynamic modeling of the forces that affect party support.
Publications have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the
American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science,
the Journal of Politics, and other academic journals, as well in books published
by the university presses of Cambridge, Duke and Oxford. Oxford also published
her most recent book (Political Choice in Britain) with Harold Clarke, David
Sanders and Paul Whiteley. With them, she currently is at work on Valence
Politics and The British Voter. She teaches undergraduate courses in
political behavior and graduate
courses in democratization, globalization
and international relations and in logic, methodology and scope of political science.
Marianne Stewart is Editor-Select of the
American Journal of Political Science.
She also has been Associate Editor of International Studies Quarterly,
Assistant Editor of the Journal of Politics, a member of the editorial boards of AJPS, JOP, and
Structural Equation Modeling, and a member of the executive
councils of the American (ex officio), Midwest and Southern Political Science
Associations. She currently chairs APSA’s Committee on Annual Meetings. As
Political Science Program Director at the National Science Foundation, she was
involved in the development of Infrastructural Opportunities in Political
Science, the directorate-wide Enhancing Infrastructure in the Social and
Economic Sciences, and the agency-wide Advancing the Participation of Women in
Science and Engineering. She has served on the Advisory Panels of the
Methodology, Measurement and Statistics, Political Science, and agency-wide
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training programs at NSF.