CONTRIBUTOR:

Mildred A. Schwartz

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor Emerita

DEPARTMENT:

Sociology

INSTITUTION:

University of Illinois at Chicago

BIOGRAPHY:

Mildred A. Schwartz, professor emerita in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and visiting scholar in sociology at New York University, work identifies her with both sociology and political science. She is the author, co-author, or editor of 10 books and 60 articles. Her most recent book, Party Movements in the United States and Canada, received the Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award from the Canadian Politics Section of the American Political Science Association in 2011. Current research on corruption in the university was recognized with a non-residential fellowship at the Edward J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, 2012-13. Like the subject of her essay, she has an abiding interest in and affection for Canada.