Olin D. Johnston Professor of Political Science Betty Glad
PhD., University of Chicago (1962)
Email: glad AT sc.edu Phone: 803-777-0440

Betty Glad's research and teaching interests include the study of political leadership from a socio-psychological perspective. In l997 won the ISPP Harold Lasswell Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution to the Field of Political Psychology. She has been a president of the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP), a vice president and treasurer of the American Political Science Association (APSA), chair of the Presidency Research Group of the APSA.  She has also served on the Historical Advisory Committee to the US Department of State from 1990-95 and earlier in her career received a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship.  At present she is chair of the Psycho-politics Research Group of the International Political Science Association. 

She taught at the University of Illinois (l964 - 88) and has had visiting appointments at New York University, the Brookings Institution and Purdue.  She teaches courses on the U.S.  presidency, the foreign policy making process, and qualitative methods.

Her books include Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House (W.W. Norton), Key Pittman: the Tragedy of a Senate Insider (Columbia University Press), Charles Evans Hughes and the Illusions of Innocence: A Study in American Diplomacy (University of Illinois Press), and The Psychological Dimensions of War, (Sage).  Recent articles include analyses of the leadership styles of six recent American presidents, as well as Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin , Wilhelm deKlerk and Nelson Mandela. At present she is working on a book length study of Jimmy Carter's Inner Circle and is co-authoring a biography of Gorbachev and an edited collection on The Russian Transformation.