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SUNY Oswego Professor Bruce
Altschuler is the recipient of a 2007 SUNY Chancellor’s
Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative
Activity. |
The author of four books and a widely interviewed expert
on the presidency, polling and American politics, SUNY
Oswego Professor Bruce Altschuler is the recipient of
a 2007 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence
in Scholarly and Creative Activity.
He has been a member of Oswego’s political science
faculty since 1976.
“Taken together, his body of scholarly work is
focused, mature and important in the contributions it
has made to political science,” wrote Robert Spitzer
in support of Altschuler’s nomination for the
award. Spitzer is a distinguished professor of political
science at SUNY Cortland, who also specializes in the
presidency and public opinion.
Altschuler’s first book, Keeping
a Finger on the Public Pulse: Private Polling and Presidential
Elections, “established him early on as
a leading, innovative scholar of polling and the American
presidency,” said Stephen Rosow, chair of the
political science department, who nominated Altschuler
for the award.
Spitzer called Altschuler’s LBJ
and the Polls “an often-cited, trail-blazing
work on the vital link between presidential governance
and polling.”
Altschuler turned to state politics for his third book,
Running in Place, chronicling
his colleague Bill Scheuerman’s campaign for state
assemblyman. Spitzer wrote of this work, “While
there are many books that provide a snapshot of a legislative
race, this one was extremely well written, engaging,
and pedagogically insightful. My students enjoyed reading
it, and it was a pleasure to teach.”
Altschuler’s textbook on American law, coauthored
with Celia Sgroi ’70
of SUNY Oswego’s public justice department, is
widely used in college classrooms in the United States
and Britain. Understanding
Law in a Changing Society is now in its third
edition.
In addition, his 16 scholarly articles appeared in such
important journals as American
Review of Politics and White
House Studies. The most recent appeared in December
in Presidential Studies Quarterly.
In demand with the media, he has been a political analyst
for public radio station WRVO since 1984 and is a regular
commentator for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and
Wisconsin Public Radio, among other news organizations.
For his work with WRVO, he has received a Syracuse Press
Club award for best radio public affairs program and
a New York State Associated Press award for best local
radio documentary.
Two years ago he received the SUNY Research Foundation
award recognizing exemplary research and scholarship
by State University faculty members, and in 1992 he
received the SUNY Oswego President’s Award for
Scholarly and Creative Activity and Research.
In addition to his scholarly work and public commentary,
he has served the college as chair of the political
science department for 12 years, chair of the public
justice department for three years and a long-time officer
with United University Professions.
Altschuler was educated at City University of New York,
following service with the U.S. Army in Vietnam and
West Germany. He earned his doctorate in 1980, writing
his dissertation on Political
Polling and Presidential Elections. He was a
National Science Foundation fellow from 1972 to 1975
and a CUNY fellow in 1971-72.
—Julie Harrison Blissert |
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