Political Science Faculty

R. Shep Melnick

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

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R. Shep Melnick

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall Room 226

Telephone: 617-552-1896

Email: shep.melnick@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A. Harvard
  • M.A. Harvard
  • Ph.D. Harvard

Research Interests

Courts; Public Policy

Office Hours

M 4:30-6 pm, W 2-3 pm

Curriculum Vitae

Profile

R. Shep Melnick is the Thomas P. Oā€™Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College and co-chair of the Harvard Program on Constitutional Government.Ā  He is the author of The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational EqualityĀ (Univeristy of Chicago Press, 2023);Ā The Transformation of Title IX:Ā  Regulating Gender Equality in Education, (Brookings, 2018), Between the Lines:Ā  Interpreting Welfare Rights (Brookings,1994), and Regulation and the Courts:Ā  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.Ā  In 2012 he received the American Political Science Association Law and Courts Sectionā€™s ā€œLasting Contributionā€ award.Ā  He received his BA and PhD from Harvard, and taught at Harvard and Brandeis before moving to Boston College.Ā  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 Crucible of Desgregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality (University of Chicago Press, 2023)

The Transformation of Title IX:Ā  Regulating Gender Equality in EducationĀ (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)

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