| Karen O'Connor | Larry J. Sabato |
Karen O'Connor is a Professor of Government at American University in Washington, D.C. Previously, she taught at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia from 1977 to 1995, where she won the University's Distinguished Teacher Award. She received her J.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo where she was a Baldy Fellow in Law and Social Science. Professor O'Connor has lectured widely on the Supreme Court, women & politics, women & the law and American politics.
Professor O'Connor is the author of American Government: Continuity and Change (with Larry J. Sabato), No Neutral Ground: Abortion Politics in an Age of Absolutes (1996), Women, Politics and American Society (1995) with Nancy E. McGlen, Public Interest Law Groups (1989) (with Lee Epstein), Women's Rights: The Struggle for Equality in the 19th & 20 Centuries (1983) (with Nancy E. McGlen), and Women's Organizations' Use of the Courts (1980). She is the author of over 50 scholarly works and her articles have appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law and Policy, Judicature, the Western Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics and Women & Politics, among others.
Professor O'Connor has served on the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association, its Commission on the Status of Women in the Profession and as Chair of its Law, Courts and Judicial Behavior Section. She has also served as president of national Women's Caucus for Political Science and the Women's Caucus for Political Science-South. She is currently the Vice President of the Southern Political Science Association.
Locally, in addition to dealing with a husband, teenage daughter, and a dog, she has been a founding member of the Georgia Abortion Rights Action League, a soccer coach, Vice-President of the PTA, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Feminist Women's Health Center. She spends every weekend going to soccer games but is not a soccer mom in the political science sense. (Which means that she does not live in the suburbs and never even thought about voting for George Bush or Bob Dole. She does admit to some cross pressures when she realized that if George Bush was not reelected, the book would need more extensive revisions.)
Larry J. Sabato
According to the Wall Street Journal, Larry J. Sabato is "probably the most quoted college professor in the land." Dr. Sabato is an election analyst and the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a former Rhodes Scholar, and is the author of eighteen books about American politics, including Feeding Frenzy and Dirty Little Secrets. After he received his B. A. in government from the University of Virginia as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1974, Dr. Sabato did a year's graduate study in public policy at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Upon receipt of the Rhodes scholarship in 1975, he left Princeton to begin study at Queen's College, Oxford University. In less than two years he received his doctorate in politics from Oxford, and was invited to become a tutor (instructor) for students in the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) program. In January 1978 he was elected Lecturer in Politics at New College, Oxford. He joined the faculty at the University of Virginia in September 1978.
Currently, Dr. Sabato is editing a book on the 1996 presidential and congressional elections, entitled Toward the Millennium. To be published by Allyn & Bacon early in 1997, the volume will be the first comprehensive study of this unusual contest for the White house and Congress.
Dr. Sabato has appeared on dozens of nationally broadcast television shows, including "Nightline", "Face the Nation", "The Today Show", "Good Morning America", "48 Hours", "Larry King Live", and "The Jim Lehrer News Hour".
Dr. Sabato has served on many national and state commissions, including the National Commission for the Renewal of American Democracy; the U.S. Senate Campaign Finance Reform Panel; and the Governor's Commission on Campaign Finance Reform, Government Accountability, and Ethics.
Dr. Sabato is the recipient of more than two dozen major scholarships, grants, and academic awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the Outstanding Young Teacher Award from the University of Virginia, and the 1993 Outstanding Professor Award from the Virginia State Council of Higher Education. His visiting appointments include that of Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution and Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge University, England.
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