Michael A. Genovese
Loyola Chair of Leadership
Professor, Political Science
Director, Institute for Leadership Studies

mgenovese@lmu.edu
Ph # 310.338.7379
University Hall, 4123
Los Angeles, CA 90045

Fall 2009 Office Hours
On Sabbatical

Michael A. Genovese received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1979. He currently holds the Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies, is a Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Institute for Leadership Studies at Loyola Marymount University. In 2006, Professor Genovese was made a Fellow Commoner at the Queens College, Oxford University. Professor Genovese has written sixteen books, including The Paradoxes of the American Presidency , (co-authored by Thomas E. Cronin), Oxford University Press, 2nd ed 2004; The Presidency and the Challenges of Democracy (co-edited with Lori Cox Han), Palgrave, 2006; The Presidency and Domestic Policy , (with William W. Lammers), CQ Press, 2000; The Power of the American Presidency 1789-2000, Oxford University Press, 2001; The Presidential Dilemma, Longman , 2nd ed 2003, and; The Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Facts-on File, 2004 (winner of the New York Public Library, “Best of Reference” work of 2004). He has won over a dozen university and national teaching awards. Professor Genovese frequently appears as a political commentator on local and national television. He is also Associate Editor of the journal, White House Studies, has lectured for the United States Embassy abroad, and is editor of Palgrave Macmillan Publishing’s, “The Evolving American Presidency” book series. In 2004-05, Professor Genovese served as President of the Presidency Research Group of the American Political Science Association.

Education
B.A: St. Mary's College
M.A.: University of Southern California
Ph.D.: University of Southern California