Profile
Marianne C. Stewart is Professor of Government, Politics and Political Science in the School of Economics, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. After receiving her Ph.D in Political Science from Duke University, where she was a James B. Duke Commonwealth and the James B. Duke International Studies Fellow, 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 Executive Vice Dean, Acting Dean, Director of Graduate Studies, and Political Science Program Director.
Dr. Stewart’s research and instructional areas are Comparative Government and Politics, Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, and 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 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. 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 Human and Social Dynamics as well as Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training programs at NSF.
- Updated: September 20, 2007
