Robert Strong William Lyne Wilson Professor of Politics
Huntley 125A
540.458.8905
strongr@wlu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Robert Strong is the William Lyne Wilson Professor of Politics and was a Fulbright Scholar at University College Dublin in the 2013-14 academic year. He earned his PhD at the University of Virginia and has been at Washington and Lee since 1989. Earlier in his career he taught at Tulane University and the University College of Wales. In 1988-89 he was an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and worked in the offices of Congressman Lee Hamilton and Senator Richard Lugar. In 2005 he was a visiting scholar at University College and the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University. From 2008 to 2013 he served in senior administrative positions at Washington and Lee, first as Associate Provost and then as Interim Provost. He has published essays in a variety of journals and national newspapers and his recent speeches and op-eds can be found on a Huffington Post blog.
Education
PhD University of Virginia
MA Northern Illinois University
BA Kenyon College
Research
American foreign policy, the presidency, national security issues
Teaching
Politics 100 – American National Government
Politics 105 – Global Politics
Politics 214 – American Foreign Policy
Selected Publications
“Politics and Principle: Jimmy Carter in the Civil Rights Era,” Irish Journal of American Studies, November 2014
Decisions and Dilemmas: Case Studies in Presidential Foreign Policy Making, 2nd ed., 2005
Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy, 2000.