faculty

Samuel Barnes

Professor Emeritus, Department of Government and School of Foreign Service (2003-)
Graf Goltz Professor & Director Emeritus, BMW Center for German and European Studies
Ph.D. Duke University, 1957

A founding member of the Center, Professor Barnes retired from his position as the Center Director in the summer of 2002. Professor Barnes began as Center Director in 1991 after coming from the University of Michigan, where he had served as Professor of Political Science and Program Director at the Center for Political Studies of the Institute for Social Research. He has lectured and conducted research in Canada, France, Italy, Britain, Germany, Spain, and other European countries.

He is the author of numerous books, articles, and chapters in edited publications. His major past publications include Party Democracy; Representation in Italy; Political Action; Continuities in Political Action; and Politics and Culture. In 1998 he published The Cultural Dynamics of the Democratization of Spain in collaboration with Peter McDonough and Antonio López Pina; and was a contributing author and co-editor with Janos Simon of The Postcommunist Citizen.

He continues to be involved in a survey project of the publics of new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. Professor Barnes has been the recipient of three Fulbright awards and Fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford. He is a trustee of Duke University. The Center is grateful for the contributions Professor Barnes has made during his time at Georgetown, and we wish him well in his retirement.