James W. Riddlesperger, Jr. - Curriculum Vita

I. Education

Ph.D. University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, 1983

M.A. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 1980

B.A. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, magna cum laude, 1975

II. Areas of specialization and teaching interests

American Politics: American and Texas Government, Interest Groups, The Presidency, State Politics, Texas Politics

Research Methods: Scope and Methods of Political Science, Topics in Research Methods: Advanced Research Methods

III. Selected Recent Publications

“Symbolic Politics Revisited: The Bush Administration and the Civil Rights Act of 1991" in Bose, Mena, Himelfarb, Richard, Levanstrosser, William, and Perotti, Rosanna, eds., The Presidency of George Bush: Leading in a New World. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (forthcoming). Co-authors: W. Gary Fowler, Donald W. Jackson.

"Federalism, The Roosevelt Coalition, and Civil Rights: FDR’s Political Leadership,” in Pederson, William and Shaw, Stephen, eds., Franklin D. Roosevelt: Judicial and Human Rights Policy. (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), pp. 165-192. Co-author. Donald W. Jackson.

“Sarah T. Hughes” in John Vile, ed. American Judges: An Encyclopedia, (ABC-CLIO, 2003), pp. 407-413.

“Getting Started in the White House: Variations in Presidential Transitions,” White House Studies 3, #2 (2003), pp. 115-131.

“The Texas Legislature” in Barbour, Christine and Wright, Gerald C., Keeping the Republic, Texas Edition, (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), pp. 780-803.

“The Rejection of a Cabinet Nomination: The Senate and John Tower” in Bose, Mena and Perotti, Rosanna, eds. From Cold War to New World Order: The Foreign Policy of George H.W. Bush. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (2002), pp. 369-390. Co-author: James D. King.

"Johnson, Lyndon Baines," in Martin, Waldo E. and Sullivan, Patricia, eds., Civil Rights in the United States, Vol. 1, New York: Macmillan, 2000, pp. 394-396.

“Reagan, Ronald W." in Martin, Waldo, E. and Sullivan, Patricia, eds, Civil Rights in the United States, Vol. 2, New York: Macmillan, 2000, pp. 639-640.

“Bill Clinton” in Powell, John, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century World Leaders, Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 2000, pp. 333-336.

“Ronald Reagan” in Powell, John, ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century World Leaders, Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Corp., 2000, pp. 1287-1290.

“Kennedy, John F.” in Singleton, Carl, ed., The Sixties in America, Pasadena: Salem Press, 1999, Vol. 2, pp. 404-406.

“Albert Gore” in Magill, Frank N., ed., Dictionary of World Biography: The Twentieth Century, Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1999, pp. 1431-1433.

“Texans in Congress: the Changing Nature of the Texas Congressional Delegation” in Champagne, Anthony and Harpham, Edward J., eds., Texas Politics: A Reader. 2nd edition. New York: Norton, 1998, pp. 32-47. Co-author: Joanne Connor Green.

Presidential Leadership and Civil Rights Policy. (co-edited with Donald W. Jackson). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.

IV. Honors and awards

Dean's Teaching Award, TCU, 1995

Mortar Board Preferred Professor, TCU

V. Selected recent professional and university service

Department Chair, 1989-1992, 2000—present

Intercollegiate Athletics Committee Chair 1996-1998

Director of TCU Washington Internship Program, 1993-1998

Member, University Advisory Committee, 1998-99

Consultant, Advanced Placement Program, 1997-present, table leader, 2000-2001, question leader 2002-2004, presenter at AP National Conference, 2002

Executive Committee, Southwest Political Science Association, 1995-1998