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David J. Menefee-Libey Faculty Picture
Professor of Politics,
Pomona College

On sabbatical leave 2008-2009 academic year

B.A., St. Olaf College 
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
With Pomona Since: 1989
Pomona email Address: DMenefee@Pomona.edu
Office: (909) 607-9323
Campus Address: Carnegie 4
Office Hours:
Courses Taught (and most recent syllabus websites)
Politics 3 Introduction to American Politics (Fall)
http://www.politics.pomona.edu/dml/IntroAmerican.htm
Politics 30 The United States Congress (Spring)
http://www.politics.pomona.edu/dml/congress.htm
Politics 130 Campaigns and Elections (Fall, even-numbered years)
http://www.politics.pomona.edu/dml/elections.htm
Politics 135 Public Policy Implementation & Evaluation (Fall)
http://www.politics.pomona.edu/dml/imp.htm
Politics 147 Education Politics and Policy (Spring, even-numbered years)
    http://www.politics.pomona.edu/dml/education.htm
Politics 148 Education Policy Data Workshop (Fall, occasionally)
http://www.politics.pomona.edu/dml/Workshop.htm
PPA 190 Public Policy Internship and Thesis Seminar (alternating with Prof. Worthington)
http://www.politics.pomona.edu/dml/PPASeminar.htm
Research Interests: 
» The politics of reform in urban public school districts.
» Campaigns and elections in the United States.
 
Selected Publications:
Charles Taylor Kerchner, David J. Menefee-Libey, Laura Steen Mulfinger, and Stephanie E. Clayton, Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in American Public Education (Harvard Education Press, 2008).

Charles Taylor Kerchner, David Menefee-Libey, and Laura Steen Mulfinger, "Comparing the Progressive Model and Contemporary Ideas and Trends," in William Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, and Mark Blyth, eds., The Transformation of Great American School Districts: How Big Cities are Reshaping Public Education (Harvard Education Press, 2008).

David Menefee-Libey, Charles Taylor Kerchner, and Laura Steen Mulfinger, "The Persistence of Ideas in Los Angeles Public School Reform," in ibid.

"Big Deal: The 2006 Midterm Elections, the Progressive Project, and the Reagan-Bush Revolution," The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics, vol. 4, Issue 3 (December 2006). Online at: http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol4/iss3/art7

David Menefee-Libey, Deborah Gantz and Mazohra Thami, “Conditions of Education in the Los Angeles Region 2006,” under the auspices of SCCORE, the Southern California Consortium On Research in Education (published online at http://SCCORE.org, October 2006).

"Systemic reform in a federated system: Los Angeles at the turn of the millennium," Education Policy Analysis Archives, 12(60), October 2004) (Online at http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v12n60/)

The Triumph of Campaign-Centered Politics (Chatham House, 2000)
 

Selected Awards and Honors:

Pomona College, Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997, 1992, 2002 and 2007

Visiting Fulbright Professor, University of Limerick, Ireland, 1999-2000
 
For more information, see the official Faculty Profile.
 

Last modified: December 10, 2008