Faculty Profile: John C. Green

Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Director, Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics

Contact Information:
223B Olin Hall
Akron, Ohio 44325-1904
330.972.5182
green@uakron.edu

Ph.D., Cornell University
B.A., University of Colorado

John C. Green is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, and is best known for his work on religion and politics.

He is co-author of The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy; Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches From the Front, and The Diminishing Divide: Religion’s Changing Role in American Politics. In addition, he is co-editor of The State of the Parties, now in its 5th edition, Multiparty Politics in America, and Financing the 1996 Election.

Green is the Director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, a bipartisan research and teaching institute dedicated to the nuts and bolts of practical politics. Green is widely known as an observer of Ohio and national politics, and he is frequently quoted in the national and state media.