Anthony (Jack) Gierzynski, Professor (1992)

• B.A., Northern Illinois University
• M.A. Northern Illinois University
• Ph.D. University of Kentucky
• Curriculum Vitae

Area of expertise

American Politics, Elections, Political Parties and the Media

Contact Information

Office: Old Mill Room 513
Phone: 802.656.7973
Email: Anthony.Gierzynski@uvm.edu

Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday/Friday - 10:00-11:00; Monday - 1:00-1:30 or by appointment.

Webite: Vermont Legislative Research Shop

Professor Gierzynski's area of study is American politics with specific interests in elections, political parties, and the mass media. He has published three books; Saving American Elections: A Diagnoisis and Prescription for a Healthier Democracy (Cambria Press, 2011), Money Rule: Financing Elections in America (Westview Press 2000), and Legislative Party Campaign Committees in the American States (University Press of Kentucky 1992). He has published several articles on the financing of state legislative campaigns in Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Review of Politics, and Women & Politics. He has also written several book chapters for edited volumes including three chapters in Campaign Finance in State Legislative Elections, one for The Financing of the 2000 Election, and another on the effect of The Daily Show. He has been part of research teams awarded grants by the National Science Foundation and the Joyce Foundation to study the financing of elections at the state and local level. And, he has been an expert witness and consultant in several court cases testing campaign finance laws, including Landell v Sorrell, a case ultimately settled by the U.S Supreme Court. Professor Gierzynski is the Director of the James M. Jeffords Center's Vermont Legislative Research Service.  He is currently working on a book on the effects of the Harry Potter series on the Millennial Generation and a book on politics and the media.

Faculty Directory

• Ellen Andersen (2008)
• Robert Bartlett (2006)
• Caroline Beer (2000)
• Frank Bryan (1976)
• Eileen Burgin (1988)
• John P. Burke (1984)
• Matthew Carlson (2005)
• Michele Commercio (2006)
• Alec Ewald (2006)
• Jan Feldman (1982)
• F. Gregory Gause (1995)
• Anthony Gierzynski (1992)
• Deborah Guber (1998)
• Lisa Holmes (2002)
• Patrick Neal (1988)
• Garrison Nelson (1968)
• Bob Pepperman Taylor (1986)
• Martha Thomas (2010)
• Peter VonDoepp (2005)
• Melissa Willard-Foster (2012)
• Alex Zakaras (2005)

Research Associate Professors

• Edward R. McMahon (2003)

Adjunct Faculty

• Bradford Green (2012)
• Gordon Robison (2012)
• Fariborz Mokhtari (2012)
• Jody M. Prescott (2012)

Professors Emeriti

• Howard Ball (1989-2002)
• Carolyn Elliott (1987-2003)
• Alan Wertheimer (1968-2005)
• George Moyser (1987-2010)