Dr. James Read, Professor

Professor of Political Science with the College of St. Benedict since 1988. A.B., University of Chicago, 1980; M.A., Harvard University, 1983; Ph.D, 1988. He is the Joseph P. Farry Professor of Public Policy at CSB/SJU, and has been Visiting Professor of Political Science at University of California-Davis. Dr. Read is the author of Majority Rule versus Consensus: The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun (University Press of Kansas, 2009),  Power versus Liberty: Madison, Hamilton, Wilson, and Jefferson (University of Virginia Press, 2000) and Doorstep Democracy: Face to Face Politics in the Heartland (University of Minnesota Press, 2008).

Office: CSB, Main 426C
Phone #: 320-363-5239
jread@csbsju.edu

Fall 2009 Courses:

• POLS 211, Politics & Political Life
• POLS 221, Introduction to Political Theory (2 sections)
• POLS 350, Topics in Public Policy: American Political Thought & Contemporary Policy

Spring 2010:

• POLS 114, Public Policy Analysis and Recommendation (1 credit)