The department is pleased to welcome Donald P. Green to Columbia as Professor of Political Science.  Prior to his appointment at Columbia, Professor Green had taught at Yale for 22 years, where he also directed the Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

The author of four books and more than one hundred essays, Green's research interests span a wide array of topics:  voting behavior, partisanship, campaign finance, hate crime, and research methods. Much of his current work uses field experimentation to study the ways in which political campaigns mobilize and persuade voters. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and was awarded the Heinz I. Eulau Award for best article published in the American Political Science Review during 2009.  In 2010, he helped found the Experimental Research section of the American Political Science Association and served as its first president.  He has recently written a book on field experiments, which is expected to be published in 2012.