CURRICULUM VITAE

August 1998

Lorn S. Foster

Charles and Henrietta Detoy Professor of Government and
Professor of Politics
Pomona College
Claremont. California 91711

909 607-2263

FAX 909/607-1274

E-mail: LFoster(@Pomona.edu

Home Address

886 Ottawa Drive
Claremont, CA 91711

   

Telephone

909) 626-6400

   

Date of Birth

April 27, 1947

   

Marital Status

Married, one child

   


Experience

ACE Fellow, Office of the Chancellor, California State University. 1995-96

Chair. Politics Department, 1993) - 1997

Professor, Pomona College, 1992 -

Senior Fellow, The Joint Center for Political Studies, 1984

Associate Professor. Pomona College, 1984-92

Assistant Professor, Pomona College, 1978-83)

Acting Director, Institute of Ethnic Studies, University of Nebraska, 1977-78

Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska. 1976 - 1978

Assistant Professor, University of New Orleans, 1974-76

Universities Attended and Degrees Conferred

University of Illinois. Ph.D., 1976, Political Science

University of Illinois. A.M., 1971, Political Science

California State University Los Angeles, B.A., 1969, Political Science

Areas of Teaching Interest

American National Government (Political Behavior)

Black Politics

Campaigns and Elections

Public Policy (Civil Rights)

Awards and Honors

Ford Social Science Initiative. "Minority Incorporation in Los Angeles: 1969-199'." Summer research project conducted with Joe Wallerstem, 1994

Ford Social Science Initiative. A Faculty Seminar: "City of Angels, City of Quartz: Los Angeles and the Urban Landscape," 1994-95

Fellow National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 1993 ). University of California. Berkeley, "Political Cultures"

Ford Summer Grants to Improve Undergraduate Teaching, 1990 and 1991

Purdue University-Minority Fellow, Summer 1990

National Research Council., 1985 Post-doctoral Fellowship for Minorities

Haynes Foundation Summer Fellowship, 1981 and 1993

Irvine Summer Grant Readings in Urban Economics and Public Finance, 1980

Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 1980

University of California at Santa Barbara, "Reapportionment in the 1980's and the Quest for Fair Representation"

Fellow. lCPR. University of Michigan, Summer. 1972

Ford Advanced Study Fellowship (for Black Americans), 1971-72, 1972-73), 197')-74

University Fellow, University of Illinois, 1969-70

Dissertation

Children's Attitudes Toward Political Participation: A Comparative Study

Publications

"The Impact of Economic Conditions on Voting and Policy Opinions Among Black Americans," with Susan Welch, Western Political Quarterly

"Avenues for Black Political Mobilization: The Presidential Campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson," in Lorenzo Morris, (editor), The Social and Political Implications of the Jesse Jackson Presidential Campaign, Praeger Special Studies, (1990).

"Class and Conservatism in the Black Community." with Susan Welch. American Politics Quarterly. (Fall 1987). 445-470.

"Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act: The Implementation of an Administrative Remedy," Publius, (Fall 1996). 17-29.

"Political Symbols and the Enactment of the 1982 Voting Rights Act," in Lorn S. Foster (editor). The Voting Rights Act: Consequence and Implications, Praeger Special Studies (1985).

"The Voting Rights Act: Political Modernization and the New Southern Politics." Southern Studies, (Fall 1984), 266-287.

Jesse Jackson's Campaign: The Primaries and Caucuses, (The Joint Center for Political Studies, 1994) with Thomas E. Cavanagh.

"Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and Its Effects Upon Southern School Boards," National Educational Review, 35.1 (January 1984) 25-34.

"The Voting Rights Act: Black Voting and the New Southern Politics." The Western Journal of Black Studies, 7:3 (September 1983), 120-129.

"Political Culture as a Determinant of Public Regardingness Among School Board Members," Urban Education, 18:1 (April 1983), 29-39

"Blacks' Perceptions of the Mayor: An Empirical Test," Urban Affairs Quarterly, 14:2 (December 1978), 245-252.

"Powerlessness and Alienation." in Alan Leonhard (editor), Essays on the Powerlessness ofthe Poor (New Orleans: Louisiana Committee on the Humanities. 1976) 52-58.

Book Reviews

Moreland. Steed and Baker (eds.), Blacks in Southern Politics, (New York, Praeger. 1987) Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 19, (1989), pp. 412-414.

Abigail, M. Thermstrom. Whose Votes Count'? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights (Cambridge. Harvard University Press, 1997) The National Political Science Review. Voluine I (1988) pp. 201-202.

Joseph S. Roueek and Bernard Eisenberg (eds.), American Ethnic Politics (Westport. Ct.: Greenwood Press. 1982) The American Political Science Review. 77:4 (December. 1993) P. 1053.

Work in Progress

"Minority Incorporation in Los Angeles: 1969 - 1993"

"The Master Plan for Higher Education Revisited: 1995 and Beyond"

Community Service

Trustee, Cate School, Carpenteria, California

Other Professional Activities

Reader, NSF pre-doctoral Fellowship in Political Science, 1995 - 1998; Chair in 1998

Expert Witness for plaintiffs in Townsend v. State of Indiana

Expert Witness for plaintiffs in League of the United Latin American Citizens, et al. v. Legislature of the State of California, et al.

Chair, Gladys M. Kammerer Award Committee, 1991-1992 (Select the best book in the US National Politics for the APSA)

Editorial Board, American Political Journal of Science, 1993-1997

Editorial Board, The Journal of Politics, 1991-1997

Editorial Board, Western Political Quarterly, 1987-1990

Editorial Board, Teaching Political Science, 1986-1988

Reader, American Politics Quarterly

Reader, Urban Affairs Quarterly

Disscussant: "Conference on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act: Law and Society," The Brookings Institute, Oct. 19, 1990, Washington, D.C.

Disscussant: "Modeling Race and U.S. Electoral Politics," May 19, 1990, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA.

Disscussant: "The Impact of the Voting Rights Act: 1965-1990," May 12, 1990, Rice University, Houston, TX.

Organized a one day conference, "Representation, Reapportionment, and Minority Empowerment," spnsored by the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies, March 29, 1990, Claremont, CA.

Reader, National Research Council, Ford Minority Post-doctoral Fellowship, 1987-1992.

Planning Committee, National Research Council, 1987-1991

Executive Committee, Committee for Political Organizations and Parties of the American Political Science Association, 1987-1991.

College Activities

Golf Coach, 1994 -

Dean, Alumni College, 1994 and 1996

Member, Administration Committee. Spring 1989, 1994-95; elected to a three-year term, 1997-1998

Member, The McConnell Search Committee, 1992-95

Member, Athletic Committee, 1981-83 1986-89, Chair, 1988-89

Member, Admissions Committee, 1980-81, 1983-84

Member, Faculty Senate. 1980-83

Member, Religious Affairs Committee, 1979-80

Mernber. Grievance Corninittee. 1979-81

Faculty Resident. Norton-Clark. 1978-81

Professional Memberships

American Political Science Association

Midwest Political Science Association

National Conference of Black Political Scientists

Academy of Political Science

Western Political Science Association

Southern Political Science Association