Dr Clodagh Harrington has been elected as chair of the American Politics Group – the leading forum in Europe for the study of US politics.
Dr Harrington, senior lecturer in politics and editor of Obama’s Washington: Political Leadership in a Partisan Era, has been part of De Montfort University’s Department of Politics and Public Policy since 2006.
The APG is a constituent body of the Political Studies Association and is considered to be the leading forum in Europe for the study of American politics and has a national and international membership base.
Dr Harrington's expertise and contacts have hugely benefited politics students at DMU. This year top political analyst Amy Walter spoke to students about the mid-term elections and students also got to hear from former Congress representatives about the American political system.
She becomes chair of the American Politics Group after a successful three years as vice-chair.
The APG held its inaugural conference in January 1975 at the University of Keele, where it welcomed Archibald Cox (special prosecutor in the Watergate investigations) as keynote lecturer.
The group organises an annual residential conference and a one-day colloquium at the American Embassy, London, as well as many other events and activities.
In recent years, the APG has attracted support from, and worked with, the American Political Science Association, the British Association for American Studies and the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library.
Posted on Thursday 12 February 2015