Gregory Wawro (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1997) specializes in American politics (including Congress, elections, campaign finance, judicial politics, and political economy) and political methodology. He is the author of Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives (University of Michigan Press, 2000) and co-author (with Eric Schickler) of Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the United States Senate (Princeton University Press, 2006), which is an historical analysis of the causes and consequences of filibusters.  He has published articles in The American Journal of Political Science, The Annual Review of Political Science, Critical Review, Legislative Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Law Economics and Organization, and Political Analysis. His academic awards include the Richard J. Fenno Prize for best book in legislative studies in 2006, the E.E. Schattschneider Award, the Milton J. Esman Award, the CQ Prize for best paper presented in the Legislative Studies Section at the 2002 APSA meeting, a Mellon Foundation Graduate Fellowship, and a John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship.  He has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

Research Interests:  Congress, Elections, Judicial Politics Political Economy, Research Design, Quantitative Analysis, Formal Theory.