Congratulations to Randall Calvert

I am pleased to tell you that Randall L. Calvert is to be named the Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs & Political Science. A formal installation will be held on February 18, 2003.

Professor Calvert received a B.S. in Mathematical Analysis in the Social Sciences from the University of Kentucky in 1975 and the Ph.D. in Social Science from the California Institute of Technology in 1980. He joined the faculty of Arts & Sciences at Washington University as Professor of Political Science in October 1999, having also served here as Assistant Professor, 1979-85 and Associate Professor, 1985-87. Before returning to Washington University, he was Don Alonzo Watson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, serving as Department Chair there from 1991-1996.

His research focuses on positive political theory and on American politics. He is the author of Models of Imperfect Information in Politics (1986) and of journal articles on positive theory and on American legislative and electoral politics in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and elsewhere. In the past decade, his published research has concentrated especially on game-theoretic general models of leadership and social institutions. His current research and teaching focus is on processes of political communication and argument and on American constitutional politics. He is co-editor of the Cambridge University Press series The Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions and of the interdisciplinary journal Economics and Politics.

The Thomas F. Eagleton University Professorship in Public Affairs & Political Science was established in 1985 to celebrate the long years of service that Senator Eagleton provided to the people of Missouri, upon his coming home to our community and to a faculty position at Washington University. The inaugural holder of the chair, Senator Eagleton held the professorship until he was named professor emeritus in 2001.

Edward S. Macias