Thursday, November 9, 2023

6:30 PM
American University, Washington College of Law, Ceremonial Classroom 

The Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at SPA invites you to the 6th Annual Barbara Sinclair Lecture with Professor Steven S. Smith. 

Steven S. Smith is the Kate M. Gregg Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Washington University. He now also is professor of political science at Arizona State University. He was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and taught at George Washington University, Northwestern University, and the University of Minnesota, where he was the Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Political Science and Law. He was director of the Weidenbaum Center for 20 years. 

Through this annual series, CCPS honors the late political scientist Barbara Sinclair, a renowned expert on Congress, by hosting a lecture by a prominent Congressional scholar. Previous hosts have included Rodney Hero in 2022, Wendy Schiller from Brown University in 2021, Rick Hall from the University of Michigan in 2020, Frances Lee from Princeton University in 2019 and Sarah Binder from George Washington University in 2018.