Experience

Current Positions

• University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Washington Semester Program and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, July 2006 – present.

• The Brookings Institution, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, July 2004-present.
• The Governance Institute, Fellow, Appointed December 2003 – present, elected Secretary of the Institute, May 2006.

Past Positions

• Washington University in St. Louis, Senior Fellow, The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, August 2004-November 2005 (joined the Center as a Visiting Fellow in August 2004 and was promoted to Senior Fellow and Senior Lecturer in April 2005).

• University of Pennsylvania, Associate Director of the Washington Semester Program, Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science, taught advanced American Government seminar, Independent Study seminar and administered the program from Washington, D.C., July 1999 – June 2004 (on leave 2004-2005).
• University of South Florida, Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Affairs, won award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, taught the following courses: American National Government, the American Presidency, Presidential Campaigns and Elections, and the Honors seminar. Responsibilities also included Director of Political Science Honors Program and the USF Washington, D.C. Internship program, appointed December, 1993-August 1999.