The Pomona Politics Department
Lorn S. Foster
- Charles and Henrietta Detoy Professor of Government (American) and Professor of Politics, 1978
- B.A., California State University, Los Angeles
- A.M., Ph.D., University of Illinois
- Contact Information
- Office: Carnegie 1
- Phone Number: 909-607-2263
- E-mail: lorn.foster@pomona.edu
- Classes
- Politics 2: American Political Thought
- Politics 3: Introduction to American Politics
- Politics 35: City of Quartz, Los Angeles (current)
- Politics 36: Urban Politics and Public Policy
- Politics 43: Blacks in the Political Process
- Politics 44: Race, Class, & Power (current)
- Politics 45: Race & Public Opinion in the United States
- Politics 190A: Senior Seminar in Americans Politics
- Expertise
- Campaigns and Elections
- Civil Rights
- Race and Power
- Public Policy
- Urban Politics
- American National Government
- the Voting Rights Act
- Research
- At present I have two research agendas:
- a study of minority board and commission members in Los Angeles
- an ongoing analysis of the California Master Plan for Higher Education
- In addition to my academic interests, I confess, I'm an avid golfer
- Selected Publications
- With T.E. Cavanagh, Jesse Jackson's Campaign: The Primaries and Caucuses (The Joint Center for Political Studies, 1984)
- Editor, The Voting Rights Act: Consequences and Implications (Praeger Special Studies, 1985) and chapter, "Political Symbols and the Enactment of the 1982 Voting Rights Act"
- "Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act: The Implementation of an Administrative Remedy," Publius, 17-29, Fall 1996
- With S. Welch, "The Impact of Economic Conditions on the Voting Behavior of Blacks," The Western Political Quarterly 45, 221-236, March 1992
- "Avenues for Black Political Mobilization: The Presidential Campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson," in The Social and Political Implications of the Jesse Jackson Presidential Campaign (Lorenzo Morris, ed., Praeger Special Studies, 1990)
- With S. Welch, "Class and Conservatism in the Black Community," American Politics Quarterly 15: 445-970, October 1987
- "The Voting Rights Act: Political Modernization and the New Southern Politics," Southern Studies, 266-287, Fall 1984
- Awards and Honors
- National Research Council, Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Minorities, 1985
- John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation, Summer Fellowship, 1981
- Irvine Foundation Summer Grant Readings in Urban Economics and Public Finance, 1980
- Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 1980