More Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail: The Iowa Caucuses and American Presidential Candidate Selection

Steffen Schmidt

Monday, 08 Oct 2007 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Steffen Schmidt is University Professor of political science and the director of international programs for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State. He is perhaps best known as "Dr. Politics," the longtime commentator and cohost of WOI Radio's weekly political call-in show. Schmidt joined Iowa State's Political Science Department in 1970. He specializes in public law and the government, policies of globalization, and, more recently, the policy and politics of managing coastal areas. He is also interested in distance learning and teaching and was named the 2007 Innovator of the Year by the Iowa Distance Learning Association. Schmidt has become one of the most quotable political science experts in the media on U.S. presidential elections and the Iowa caucuses. In 2004 he shared his insights with such media outlets as CNN, the BBC, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and Christian Science Monitor. Schmidt is a coauthor of the annual series American Government and Politics Today as well as coeditor of Soldiers in Politics and Issues in Iowa Politics. The Fall 2007 University Presidential Lecture.

A reception and display of student research will precede the lecture at 7:00 p.m. in the South Ballroom.

Cosponsored By:

• Miller Endowment
• Office of the President
• Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)