Political Science

Phone:    (310) 338-1717
Email:     richard.fox@lmu.edu 
Office:     University Hall 4129 

Spring 2012 Course Schedule:
POLS 135 Intro. to American Politics
Tuesday and Thursday 9:25-10:40am

Spring 2012 Office Hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday 2:00-4:00pm

Richard Fox teaches and researches in the areas of U.S. Congress, elections, media and politics and gender politics. Prior to coming to Loyola Marymount, he was an associate professor and chair of the political science department at Union College in Schenectady, New York. In recent years he has also held visiting appointments at Rutgers University, College Year in Athens, and colleges affiliated with Mumbai University. Most recently he has completed work on an edited volume with Jennifer Ramos entitled iPolitics: Citizens, Elections, and Governing in the New Media Era (forthcoming, Cambridge). He also recently completed, with Jennifer L. Lawless, It Still Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office (Cambridge 2010). He is also co-author of Tabloid Justice: The Criminal Justice System in the Age of Media Frenzy, 2 nd ed. (Rienner, 2007) and coeditor of Gender and Elections: Shaping the Future of American Politics ( Cambridge, 2010). His work has appeared in such journals as Political Psychology, The Journal of Politics , American Journal of Political Science, Social Problems, PS, and Politics and Gender . He is currently working on a project examining political ambition and why people choose to run for elective office. He has also written op-ed articles, some of which have appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. After graduating from Claremont McKenna College, he earned his M.A. and Ph.D from the University of California , Santa Barbara.