|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Suzanne Mettler is the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in the Government Department at Cornell University. Her research and teaching interests include American political development, inequality, public policy, political behavior, and democracy.
Her latest book is Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy, co-authored with Trevor Brown (Princeton University Press, 2025). Her previous books include Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy (St. Martin’s Press, 2020), with Robert C. Lieberman; The Government-Citizen Disconnect (Russell Sage 2018); Degrees of Inequality: How The Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream (Basic Books 2014), The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Programs Undermine American Democracy (University of Chicago 2011), Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism In New Deal Public Policy (Cornell University Press 1998) and Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Oxford University Press 2005). Her books have won numerous prizes, including the Alexander George Book Award of the International Society of Political Psychology; on two occasions, the Kammerer Book Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on public policy; and the J. David Greenstone Award for the best book on politics and history. She has published numerous articles in refereed journals, including the American Political Science Review and Perspectives on Politics. Her short essays and op-eds have been featured in popular outlets including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Washington Monthly. She has been interviewed on several occasions on National Public Radio and appeared on PBS NewsHour and CBS Good Morning, among others.
Mettler has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and awarded Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships, grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Spencer Foundation. She was also awarded the Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Library of Congress. She is the Academic Director of the Scholars Strategy Network. Previously she served on the board of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, as treasurer; as secretary of the American Political Science Association, and president of APSA’s Politics and History and Public Policy sections. She is one of the founders of the American Democracy Collaborative, a group of scholars of American political development and comparative politics who are evaluating the health of democracy in the United States.
Her latest book is Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy, co-authored with Trevor Brown (Princeton University Press, 2025). Her previous books include Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy (St. Martin’s Press, 2020), with Robert C. Lieberman; The Government-Citizen Disconnect (Russell Sage 2018); Degrees of Inequality: How The Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream (Basic Books 2014), The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Programs Undermine American Democracy (University of Chicago 2011), Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism In New Deal Public Policy (Cornell University Press 1998) and Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Oxford University Press 2005). Her books have won numerous prizes, including the Alexander George Book Award of the International Society of Political Psychology; on two occasions, the Kammerer Book Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on public policy; and the J. David Greenstone Award for the best book on politics and history. She has published numerous articles in refereed journals, including the American Political Science Review and Perspectives on Politics. Her short essays and op-eds have been featured in popular outlets including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Washington Monthly. She has been interviewed on several occasions on National Public Radio and appeared on PBS NewsHour and CBS Good Morning, among others.
Mettler has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and awarded Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships, grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Spencer Foundation. She was also awarded the Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Library of Congress. She is the Academic Director of the Scholars Strategy Network. Previously she served on the board of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, as treasurer; as secretary of the American Political Science Association, and president of APSA’s Politics and History and Public Policy sections. She is one of the founders of the American Democracy Collaborative, a group of scholars of American political development and comparative politics who are evaluating the health of democracy in the United States.
