Governing Magazine Editor is Visiting Faculty Member at University of Richmond

January 22, 2004

Alan Ehrenhalt, executive editor of Governing magazine, is teaching a spring semester course, "Community and Political and Social Order," as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership Studies and Political Science at the University of Richmond. His course is offered through the Jepson School of Leadership Studies and the School of Arts and Sciences.

Ehrenhalt is the author of three books on politics and democracy, and he also created and edited the first four editions of "Politics in America," a biennial reference book profiling all 535 members of Congress and their districts.

Governing is a monthly magazine whose primary audience is state and local government officials. Ehrenhalt began as political editor and served as deputy editor before becoming executive editor in 1991. He previously worked for the Associated Press, the Washington Star and Congressional Quarterly.

He is a member of the board of contributors of USA Today and a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and op-ed page, the Washington Post Book World and the New Republic.

In 1983 he won the Everett McKinley Dirksen Prize for congressional reporting from the Dirksen Foundation, and in 2000 he received the McWilliams Award for distinguished contribution to political science by a journalist from the American Political Science Association.

Ehrenhalt received a B.A. from Brandeis University and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. In 1977-78 he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.