Department of Political Science
Faculty - Garrison Nelson
Garrison Nelson Professor (1968)
- A.B., Boston University
- M.A., The University of Iowa
- Ph.D., The University of Iowa
- Curriculum Vitae
Area of expertise
American Politics, U.S. Congress, Vermont Elections
Contact Information
Office: Old Mill Room 504 Phone: 802.656.4223 Email: Garrison.Nelson@uvm.eduOffice Hours: Monday/Wednesday/Friday - 3:00-5:30 or by appointment.
Professor Nelson teaches courses in American govern-ment, political leader-ship and political parties.
He is the author of more than one hundred articles and professional papers on the U.S. Congress and elections in Vermont and is a regular media commentator on those topics. He is co-author of The Austin-Boston Connection: Five Decades of House Democratic Leadership, 1937-1989 (Texas A+M University, 2009). Editor-in-Chief of the two-volume work, Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1947-1992 (CQ Press, 1993-94); co-editor of the four-volume work, Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1789- 1946 (CQ Press, 2002), named a “Best Reference Source” by the Library Journal; co-editor of Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1993-2010 (Sage/CQ Press, 2010). Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System (Scribner’s, 1994). Contributor to the Encyclopedia of American Political History (Scribner’s, 1984); ); The Committee on Ways and Means: A Bicentennial History, 1789-1989 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989); Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 1991); Encyclopedia of the U.S. Congress (Simon & Schuster, 1995); Encyclopedia of New England (Yale University Press,2005); Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections (Facts on File, 2006); and Political Encyclopedia of U.S. States and Regions (Sage/CQ Press, 2009) . Published in the American Political Science Review, PS: Political Science and Politics, the New York Times, Boston Globe, Roll Call, and the Washington Post. Recipient of the Kroepsch-Maurice Teaching Excellence Award, 2009. President of the New England Political Science Association (1991-92) and President (1995-96) and Executive Director (1997-2000) of the Northeastern Political Science Association.
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
Adjunct Faculty
- Bradford Green (2012)
- Gordon Robison (2012)
- Fariborz Mokhtari (2012)
- Jody M. Prescott (2012)