Betty Glad

Betty Glad, PhD, is the Olin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. She formerly taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and received her PhD from the University of Chicago. She has appeared as a commentator on the PBS American Experience Series on Jimmy Carter, the McNeil Lehrer Report, and other national television and radio programs. Professor Glad’s publications include Striking First (co-editor); The Russian Transformation: Political, Sociological and Psychological Aspects (co-editor and contributor); Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House; The Psychological Dimensions of War; Key Pittman; and Charles Evans Hughes and the Illusions of Innocence. Presently, she is working on a volume covering Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy advisors. Dr. Glad’s awards include the Frank D. Goodnow Award of the American Political Science Association (2000) and the Harold Lasswell Award of the International Society for Political Psychology (1997). She has served as president of the International Society for Political Psychology and of the Presidency Group of the American Political Science Association, as well as vice president of the American Political Science Association. She may be reached at .