Political Science Faculty

R. Shep Melnick

Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Professor of American Politics

Profile

R. Shep Melnick is the Thomas P. O鈥橬eill, Jr. Professor of American Politics at md传媒国产剧 College and co-chair of the Harvard Program on Constitutional Government.聽 He is the author of The Transformation of Title IX:聽 Regulating Gender Equality in Education, (Brookings, 2018), Between the Lines:聽 Interpreting Welfare Rights (Brookings,1994), and Regulation and the Courts:聽 The Case of the Clean Air Act (Brookings, 1983), as well as many articles on courts, agencies, and public policy. He is currently completing a book on education and the civil rights state.聽 In 2012 he received the American Political Science Association Law and Courts Section鈥檚 鈥淟asting Contribution鈥 award.聽 He received his BA and PhD from Harvard, and taught at Harvard and Brandeis before moving to md传媒国产剧 College.聽 He has also been a Research Associate at Brookings, President of the New England Political Science Association, and an elected member of the NH House of Representatives.

Books

The Transformation of Title IX:聽 Regulating Gender Equality in Education聽(Brookings, 2018)

Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century, co-edited with Morton Keller (Woodrow Wilson Center and Cambridge Press, 1999)

Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights (Brookings, 1994)

Regulation and the Courts: The Case of the Clean Air Act (Brookings, 1983)