Faculty Profile

		John J. Pitney, Jr., Ph.D. Crocker Professor of Politics E-mail: jpitney@cmc.edu Phone: (909) 607-4224 Campus Address: Center Court D-6 Departments: Government Web Site Curriculum Vitae
		Leave/Sabbatical Fall (on leave or sabbatical for Fall term)

Educational Background

B.A., Union College; M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Teaching Interests

• American politics: Congress, presidency, parties, public policy, media politics, political leadership (Nixon).

Research Interests

• Congress, political organizations and parties, political language, popular culture and mass media.

Selected Professional Activities

• National Association of Scholars
• American Political Science Association
• Western Political Science Association
• Christians in Political Science
• American Association of University Professors

Selected Research and Publications

• The Art of Political Warfare (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000)
• Congress' Permanent Minority? Republicans in the US House (Rowman and Littlefield, 1994). With William F. Connelly, Jr.

Selected Awards

• Honorary life membership, Claremont McKenna College Alumni Association, May 18, 2001.
• Excellence in Education Award, Saratoga Central Catholic High School, June 13, 2000.
• Glenn R. Huntoon Teaching Award, Claremont McKenna College, 2000 and 1995.
• Richard M. Shure Award for excellence in teaching, Claremont McKenna College, 1988.