Rate My Professor James Glaser

James M. Glaser is a professor of Political Science at Tufts University, currently serving as Dean Emeritus and affiliate faculty in the department. He earned his B.A. from Stanford University in 1983, M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985, and Ph.D. in Political Science from UC Berkeley in 1991. Glaser joined Tufts University's Department of Political Science as an assistant professor in 1991. He served as chair of the department from 1999 to 2003 and was promoted to full professor in 2005. Throughout his tenure, he held prominent administrative positions, including Dean of Undergraduate Education for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering from 2003 to 2010, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences from 2010 to 2014, and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences from 2015 to 2024.

Glaser specializes in electoral politics and political behavior within American politics. His seminal works include Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South (Yale University Press, 1996) and The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics (Yale University Press, 2005), both of which received the Southern Political Science Association's V.O. Key Prize for the best book on Southern politics and were designated Outstanding Academic Titles by Choice. He co-authored Changing Minds, if Not Hearts: Political Remedies to Racial Issues (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) with Timothy J. Ryan. Glaser has published extensively in top-tier journals such as American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, Political Behavior, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Electoral Studies. He is currently collaborating with Jeffrey Berry and Deborah Schildkraut on a book-length project exploring liberal and conservative attitudes toward politics, including compromise, civility, power distribution, and individual responsibility. In recognition of his teaching excellence, Glaser was awarded the 2000 Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Outstanding Teaching and Advising. During his deanship, he spearheaded the creation of new departments, hired 60 percent of the school's current faculty, and led a fundraising effort that raised $506 million, exceeding the goal.