Michael A. Genovese received a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in
1979. He currently holds the Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies, is Professor of
Political Science, and Director of the Institute for Leadership Studies at Loyola
Marymount University. In 2006, he was made a Fellow at the Queens College, Oxford
University. Professor Genovese has written twenty-eight books, including The Paradoxes of
the American Presidency, (co-authored by Thomas E. Cronin), Oxford University Press, 3rd
ed 2009; The Presidency and the Challenges of Democracy (co-edited with Lori Cox Han),
Palgrave, 2006, The Presidency and Domestic Policy, (with William W. Lammers), CQ Press,
2000, The Power of the American Presidency 1789-2000, Oxford University Press, 2001, The
Presidential Dilemma, Longman, 2nd ed 2003, The Encyclopedia of the American Presidency,
Facts-on File, 2nd ed, 2010 (winner of the New York Public Library, “Best of Reference”
work of 2004), and Memo to a New President: The Art and Science of Presidential
Leadership, Oxford University Press, 2008. He has won over a dozen university and
national teaching awards, including the Fritz B. Burns Distinguished Teaching Award
(1995), and the Rains Excellence in Research Award (2011). Professor Genovese frequently
appears as a commentator on local and national television. He is also Associate Editor of
the journal, White House Studies, is on the Editorial Board of the journals, Rhetoric
& Public Affairs, and the International Leadership Journal, has lectured for the
United States Embassy abroad, and is editor of Palgrave Macmillan Publishing’s, “The
Evolving American Presidency” book series. Professor Genovese has been The Washington
Center’s “scholar-in-residence” at three national political conventions and the 2008
presidential inauguration. In 2004-05, Professor Genovese served as President of the
Presidency Research Group of the American Political Science Association. He is currently
on the Advisory Boards of The Washington Center, and the Foundation for International
Education.
