John L. Sullivan

John Sullivan’s career at the University of Minnesota began in 1975. He was appointed Regents Professor of Political Science in 1999, and he held the Arleen Carlson Chair in American Politics at Minnesota from 2001-2008. John has won a slew of awards, including the International Society of Political Psychology’s Harold Lasswell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to the field of Political Psychology. He has co-authored 8 books and numerous articles on political tolerance; candidate appraisal, civic engagement, pedagogy, and political methodology. Several of these books and articles have garnered awards.

He won the University’s Morse Amoco/Alumni Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1995 and the very next year he won the Faculty Mentor Award from the Women’s Caucus of the American Political Science Association.  In 1995, along with Gene Borgida of the Department of Psychology, John co-founded the University’s Center for the Study of Political Psychology and its PhD Minor in Political Psychology. Along with Minnesota colleagues Gene Borgida, Wendy Rahn, and Jamie Druckman (now at Northwestern), John co-edited ISPP’s flagship journal, Political Psychology for seven years, until 2004, when he took a different type of leadership position and successfully chaired the Political Science Department at Minnesota for 3 years.s