Biography
Jeremy Mayer is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University and director of the Master’s of Public Policy program. He is the author of Running on Race: Racial Politics in Presidential Campaigns 1960-2000 (Random House 2002) as well as the brief textbook 9-11: The Giant Awakens (Wadsworth 2002, 2nd edition 2006), and American Media Politics in Transition (McGraw Hill 2006). He is the author of articles on diverse topics such as presidential image management, Christian right politics, federalism and gay rights, and comparative political socialization, in journals such as Presidential Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and The Historian.

From 2001-2003 Professor Mayer served as a visiting assistant professor at Georgetown University, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1996. He taught previously at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he won a campus-wide teaching award. Dr. Mayer is a recipient of the Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching for the American Political Science Association, the only national teaching award in political science. He also has studied politics at Oxford, Michigan, and Brown.

Dr. Mayer trains new American diplomats for the State Department at their Foreign Service Institute, speaks regularly to State Department groups from all over the world, and has spoken on behalf of the State Department in Moldova, Germany and Mexico. He has offered political commentary to major networks, including the World News Tonight, BBC, PBS’s Newshour, NPR, CNBC, and local affiliates, as well as many national newspapers. Dr. Mayer has been a keynote speaker and conference participant at gatherings in Lisbon, Tokyo, Athens, and other world cities.

At SPP, Dr. Mayer teaches courses in American foreign policy, media politics and policies, national policy systems, introduction to public policy, and statistics.

Areas of Research

• Public Opinion
  
• Racial Politics
  
• Foreign Policy
  
• Presidential Elections
  
• Statistical Methods
  
• Survey Methods
  
• Media Politics