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Marc Landy聽is Professor of Political Science and Faculty Chair of the Irish Institute at Boston College. In addition to instructing Boston College students, he regularly teaches public officials from Ireland and Northern Ireland about American politics through a series of executive programs run by the Irish Institute. He has written two books with Sidney Milkis,聽American Government: Balancing Democracy and Rights聽(McGraw Hill, 2003); and聽Presidential Greatness聽(Kansas, 2000). He co-edited聽Seeking the Center: Politics and Policymaking at the New Century聽with Martin Levin and Martin Shapiro (Georgetown, 2001) and聽The New Politics of Public Policy聽with Martin Levin (Johns Hopkins, 1995).

Kay Lehman Schlozman聽serves as J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science at Boston College. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She is co-author of聽Injury to Insult: Unemployment, Class and Political Response聽(with Sidney Verba);聽Organized Interests and American Democracy聽(with John T. Tierney);聽Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics聽(with Sidney Verba and Henry E. Brady), which won the American Political Science Association鈥檚 Philip Converse Prize; and, most recently,聽The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation聽(with Nancy Burns and Sidney Verba), which was co-winner of the APSA鈥檚 Schuck Prize. She has also written numerous articles in professional journals and is editor of Elections in America. Among her professional activities, she has served as Secretary of the American Political Science Association and as chair of the APSA鈥檚 organized section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior. She is the winner of the APSA鈥檚 2004 Rowman and Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science and the 2006 Frank J. Goodnow Distinguished Service Award. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Alan Wolfe聽is the founding director of the Boisi Center and Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He is author of more than a dozen books, including聽聽(Yale University Press, 2006),聽聽(Penguin, 1999),聽聽(Princeton University Press, 2005),聽聽(Free Press, 2003), and聽聽(W.W. Norton & Company, 2001). Widely considered one of the nation's most prominent public intellectuals, he is a frequent聽contributor to the New聽York Times, Washington Post, and Atlantic Monthly, and has delivered lectures across the United States, Europe and Middle East.