Political Science
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Emmett H. Buell, Jr.
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Professor Buell retired from teaching at Denison University at the end of the spring semester, 2008. However, he will hold the Richard G. Lugar Chair for another year as well as direct the Richard G. Lugar Program in Politics & Public Service. In this connection he will return to campus several times during the 2008-2009 academic year. At work on several new projects, he will spend part of the summer of 2008 in Washington D.C. researching a book on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He will also code campaign attacks during the 2008, 1952 and 1944 presidential contests as part of a new book on negative campaigning in wartime.
Professor Buell is a nationally recognized expert on presidential selection and negative campaigning in presidential elections. He has authored, co-authored, or co-edited four books, including Attack Politics: Negativity in Presidential Campaigns Since 1960, forthcoming in spring 2008 from the University Press of Kansas. Buell also has authored or co-authored articles and research notes in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, American Politics Quarterly, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and the Journal of Law & Politics. He also has written chapter for books edited by others on such topics as the invisible primary, the New Hampshire primary, the changing role of national party conventions, and news coverage of presidential aspirants.
Buell received his PhD in political science from Vanderbilt University after earning his undergraduate and M.A. at Louisiana State University. He has taught at Denison since the 1969-70 academic year, has directed the Richard G. Lugar Program in Politics and Public Service since its inception in 1995, and was installed as the inaugural holder of the Richard Lugar Chair in Public Policy on April 21, 2006.
Ourside of the classroom, Buell has taken classes to New Hampshire for close encounters with presidential aspirants and individual students to the Southwest for camping and hiking in New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. In June 2007 he served as treasurer and trouble-shooter for the successful Mt. Denison Expedition in Alaska, and two months later he climbed Long's Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado (shown in photo below). He has long enjoyed playing racquetball with Denison students, playing more than a hundred games against several (Neil Canfield '06, 185 games; Aaron Norton '03, 176, Jim Dunson '02, 175). He has given many talks to Denison alumni clubs in such places as San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Orange County, and San Diego.
