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Expert on Historical Analysis of Contemporary Political Problems, 20th Century American Political History Available to Discuss California Recall Effort

Contact: Heidi Weber (518) 437-4980 or Karl Luntta (518) 265-4114, cell

ALBANY, N.Y. (August 13, 2003) -- With the number of potential candidates in the California gubernatorial election closing in on 250, many Americans, including Californians who are faced with the prospect of choosing a publisher of X-rated magazines or a bodybuilder-turned-actor, among many others, are perplexed by the political process that brought it to this.

Julian Zelizer, University at Albany associate professor of Public Administration and Policy, specializes in drawing on historical analysis to tackle and explain contemporary politics. He teaches U.S. history courses on the historiography of political history, the state in the twentieth century, and public policy since the New Deal.

Zelizer, a historian, is currently writing a book about congressional reform since WWII (Cambridge University Press), editing The Reader's Companion to the American Congress (Houghton Mifflin) and co-editing The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (Princeton University Press).

He regularly contributes to the radio show Talking History and has appeared frequently on television as a political expert. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Times Union (Albany, N.Y.).

Zelizer received his B.A. in History from Brandeis University and his Ph.D. in History from the Johns Hopkins University.



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