Professor
Robert S. Erikson
Columbia University
Political scientist; Educator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Political Science
Elected
2007
Robert S. Erikson received both an M.A. (1966) and a Ph.D. in Political Science (1969) at UIUC. Upon graduation he received an appointment as an assistant professor at Florida State University. In 1978 Dr. Erikson was appointed professor of Political Science at the University of Houston; in 1991 he was named Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Houston. He has been Professor of Political Science at Columbia University since 1999. Dr. Erikson has also had visiting appointments at Washington University, St. Louis and the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Erikson has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the leading scholars of American politics. He has published extensively in the fields of political behavior and elections and is held in high regard for his methodological and statistical skills. His research has been funded by four National Science Foundation grants. He has authored or edited three books. His most recent work (with Michael B. Mackuen and James A. Stimson) is The Macro Polity; his book, American Public Opinion: Its Origins, Content and Impact, is the classic text in the field and is in its sixth edition. He has also published more than 50 scholarly articles, publishing regularly in some of the leading journals in the discipline (American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, etc.).
Professor Erikson’s scholarly achievements have been recognized in a variety of ways. He served as editor of the American Journal of Political Science between 1982 and 1984. In addition, he has served on the editorial boards of eight scholarly journals. In 1989 he was elected President of the Southwestern Political Science Association and in 1995 he was a co-recipient of the Heinz Eulau award for best article in the American Political Science Review in 1995. The American Political Science Association recognized him as one of the 10 living members of the "APSR Hall of Fame" in the March 1996 edition of PS. He was also recognized as one of 21 "integrators of the profession" in Goodin and Klingeman, A New Handbook for Political Science (Oxford University Press, 1996). He was named Section Head for the Public Opinion and Political Psychology section of the 1987 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Finally, he was a member of the National Science Foundation Review Panel for Political Science from 1977 through 1980.
Dr. Erikson has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the leading scholars of American politics. He has published extensively in the fields of political behavior and elections and is held in high regard for his methodological and statistical skills. His research has been funded by four National Science Foundation grants. He has authored or edited three books. His most recent work (with Michael B. Mackuen and James A. Stimson) is The Macro Polity; his book, American Public Opinion: Its Origins, Content and Impact, is the classic text in the field and is in its sixth edition. He has also published more than 50 scholarly articles, publishing regularly in some of the leading journals in the discipline (American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, etc.).
Professor Erikson’s scholarly achievements have been recognized in a variety of ways. He served as editor of the American Journal of Political Science between 1982 and 1984. In addition, he has served on the editorial boards of eight scholarly journals. In 1989 he was elected President of the Southwestern Political Science Association and in 1995 he was a co-recipient of the Heinz Eulau award for best article in the American Political Science Review in 1995. The American Political Science Association recognized him as one of the 10 living members of the "APSR Hall of Fame" in the March 1996 edition of PS. He was also recognized as one of 21 "integrators of the profession" in Goodin and Klingeman, A New Handbook for Political Science (Oxford University Press, 1996). He was named Section Head for the Public Opinion and Political Psychology section of the 1987 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Finally, he was a member of the National Science Foundation Review Panel for Political Science from 1977 through 1980.
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