Jeremy Mayer
Associate
Professor and Director,
Master's of Public Policy
jmayer4@gmu.edu
phone:
703.993.8223
fax: 703.993.8215
George Mason School of Public
Policy
3401 Fairfax Drive– MS 3B1
Arlington, VA 22201
Education
Brown University AB 1990
Georgetown University PhD 1996
Biography
Jeremy Mayer is an associate professor in the School
of Public Policy at George Mason University and director of the
Master’s of Public
Policy program. He is the author of Running on Race:
Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns 1960-2000 (Random House
2002) as well as
the brief textbook 9-11: The Giant Awakens (Wadsworth
2002, 2nd edition 2006), and American Media Politics in
Transition (McGraw Hill 2006).
He is the author of articles on diverse topics such
as presidential image management, Christian right politics, federalism
and gay rights,
and comparative political socialization, in journals
such as Presidential Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly,
and The Historian.
From 2001-2003 Professor Mayer served as a visiting
assistant professor at Georgetown University, from which he received
his Ph.D. in 1996.
He taught previously at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo,
Michigan, where he won a campus-wide teaching award. Dr. Mayer is
a recipient
of the Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching for the
American Political Science Association, the only national
teaching award in political science. He also has studied politics
at Oxford,
Michigan, and Brown.
Dr. Mayer trains new American diplomats for the State
Department at their Foreign Service Institute, speaks regularly
to State Department
groups from all over the world, and has spoken on behalf
of the State Department in Moldova, Germany and Mexico. He has offered
political
commentary to major networks, including the World News
Tonight, BBC, PBS’s Newshour, NPR, CNBC, and local affiliates,
as well as many national newspapers. Dr. Mayer has been a keynote
speaker and
conference participant at gatherings in Lisbon, Tokyo,
Athens, and other world cities.
At SPP, Dr. Mayer teaches courses in American foreign policy, media
politics and policies, national policy systems, introduction to public
policy, and statistics.
Areas of Expertise
Presidential and Congressional elections
Racial politics
Media policy and politics
Public opinion
US foreign policy