Catherine E. Rudder joined the faculty of the School of Public Policy in 2001 after having held the position as the Executive Director of the American Political Science Association. After serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2004 to 2008 she is now the Director of the Master's of Public Policy program. Rudder served the APSA, the world's largest professional organization for the study of politics, for 20 years where she strengthened both the organization and the political science discipline. Rudder joined the APSA staff in 1981 as assistant director, with responsibilities as editor of PS: Political Science & Politics and director of the Congressional Fellowship Program. She was named executive director in 1987. Previously she served as Chief of Staff to former Representative Wyche Fowler, Jr. of Georgia. In 1974-75 she was an APSA Congressional Fellow.

Rudder has served on a number of boards, including the National Humanities Alliance, where she was president in 2000-01, Consortium of Social Science Associations, Dirksen Congressional Center, Carter Center, and Emory University where she has served as Secretary of the Board and as a member of the Executive, Academic Affairs (member and chair), and Nominations Committees. She has published a number of articles on congressional reform and specifically on tax policy making in the U.S. She was one of the two scholars in the country commissioned to write and present a paper for the Bicentennial Symposium of the Committee on Ways and Means.

She was selected to be a Public Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution for 1990-91 and awarded a Robert Bosch Public Policy Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin in 1999. She has been a visiting scholar at George Washington University. Rudder completed a five-year term in 1998 as the Political Science Book Reviewer for Phi Beta Kappa's Key Reporter and currently serves on Phi Beta Kappa's Committee on the Visiting Scholar Program.

• American Government and Politics
• Federal Government (US)
• Governance
• Non-profit Institutions
• Regulation
• Tax Policy Making

Education
Ph.D., Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1973

M.A., Ohio State University, 1972

B.A. (High Honors), Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1969

Professional Experience
School of Public Policy, George Mason University
- Professor and Director of Master's Program in Public Policy, 2009 to present
- Professor, 2008 to present
- Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, 2004 to 2008.
- Professor and Director of the Master's Program in Public Policy,
2001 to 2004

American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.
- Executive Director, 1987-2001
- Associate Director, 1983 to September 1987
- Assistant Director, 1981-1983

U.S. House of Representatives, Office of Wyche Fowler, Jr., Washington, D.C.
- Chief of Staff, 1978-81
- Legislative Assistant, September-December 1977

University of Georgia, Department of Political Science, Athens, Georgia.
- Assistant Professor, Honors Faculty 1973-1977

Books
Fritschler, A. L. a. C. Rudder. Smoking and Politics: Bureaucracy Centered Policy Making. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 2006.

Book Sections
Rudder, C. “Transforming American Politics through Tax Policy.” In Congress Reconsidered, Ninth Edition, edited by L. C. Dodd and B. I. Oppenheimer. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2008.

Journal Articles
Rudder, C. “Private Governance as Public Policy: A Paradigmatic Shift.” Journal of Politics 70, no. 4 (2008): 899-913.

Honors
Currently serves on the advisory boards of the Congressional Fellowship Program, Center on Congress, Dirksen Congressional Center, and Center on Congressional and Presidential Studies

President of the Southern Political Science Association, 2007

Named to the editorial board of the Journal of Politics, 2005

Elected Phi Beta Kappa Society Senator, 2003

Excellence in Mentorship Award, Women’s Caucus for Political Science, 2002

Erika Fairchild Award, Women’s Caucus for Political Science, South, 2002

Frank J. Goodnow Award, American Political Science Association, 2001

Distinguished Service Award, Committee on the Status of Blacks in the Profession, American Political Science Association, 2001

Robert Bosch Public Policy Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, Fall 1999

George S. Parthemos Scholar, University of Georgia, Athens, 1997

Rosalyn Carter Honorary Fellow of the Emory Institute for Women's Studies, 1993-95

Public Affairs Fellow, National Fellows Program, Hoover Institution,Stanford University, 1990-91

Distinguished Alumnus, Westminster Schools, Atlanta, GA, 1991

Emory Medal, Emory University, 1990

Congressional Fellowship, American Political Science Association, 1974-75

William Jennings Bryan Dissertation Prize, Ohio State University, 1974

Four-Year University Fellowship, Ohio State University, 1969-1973

Marion Luther Brittain Award for Academic Achievement, Leadership and Service, Emory University, 1969

Mortar Board, 1968

Omicron Delta Kappa
Eta Sigma Psi
Pi Sigma Alpha
Phi Beta Kappa