Gregory Wawro (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1997.) Professor Wawro specializes in American politics (including Congress, elections, campaign finance, 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, Legislative Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Law Economics and Organization, and Political Analysis. His academic awards include 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, Political Economy, Research Design, Quantitative Analysis, Formal Theory.