{{short description|American political scientist}} '''Betty Glad''' (September 27, 1927– August 2, 2010) was an American political scientist who specialized in the American presidency and American foreign policy.<ref name="PS">{{cite journal | last1=Sabia | first1=Daniel | last2=Woliver | first2=Laura R. | title=BETTY GLAD | journal=PS: Political Science & Politics | publisher=Cambridge University Press | volume=43 | issue=4 | year=2010 | issn=1049-0965 | doi=10.1017/s1049096510001459 | pages=802–803 | doi-access=free }}</ref> Her first work on Charles Evans Hughes<ref name="Glad1966">{{cite book|last=Glad|first=Betty |title=Charles Evans Hughes and the illusions of innocence: a study in American diplomacy|url=https://archive.org/details/charlesevanshugh0000glad|url-access=registration|year=1966|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana, IL}}</ref> led to a nomination for a Pulitzer Prize.<ref name="legacy">{{cite web|title=Betty Glad: Obituary|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?pid=144529821|publisher= Deseret News|date=9 August 2010|accessdate=27 September 2017}}</ref>
== Education and career == Glad graduated from the University of Utah magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelors of Science, and went on to receive her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1962.<ref name="legacy"/>
She began her teaching career at Mount Holyoke College and Brooklyn College, before becoming the first female Chair of Political Science at the University of Illinois. She would stay at Illinois until 1989, when she took up a post at the University of South Carolina. Glad was one of the first women to earn a PhD in political science and then teach at a PhD-granting institution.<ref name="legacy"/>
Glad's interests included the areas of political science and political psychology, and she was honored for her lifelong contributions in both subjects through the "Frank D. Goodnow Award" from the American Political Science Association and the "Harold Lasswell Award" from the International Society for Political Psychology.<ref name="PS"/>
== Legacy == Betty Glad has left behind a written legacy about six presidents of the United States, and other world leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, and Nelson Mandela.<ref name="PS"/>
The "Betty Glad Legal Defense Fund" has been established in her name through the Women's Caucus for Political Science to help women battle discrimination and misconduct in the workplace.<ref name="wome_TheB">{{Cite web| title = The Betty Glad Legal Defense Fund|work = Women's Caucus for Political Science|accessdate = 27 October 2017| url =https://womenscaucusforpoliticalscience.org/the-betty-glad-legal-defense-fund/}}</ref>
== Bibliography ==
* ''World Affairs Programs in Illinois'' (1965) [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2665555 OCLC 2665555] * ''Charles Evens Hughes and the Illusions of Innocence: A Study in American Diplomacy'' (1966) [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/491012795 OCLC 456602] * ''Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great White House'' (1980) {{ISBN|9780393075274}} * ''Psychological Dimensions of War'' (1994) [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/258751127 OCLC 258751127] * ''The Russian Transformation: Political, Sociological, and Psychological Aspects''. Edited by Glad and Eric Shiraev. (1999) {{ISBN|9780312215668}} * ''Striking First: The Preventive War Doctrine and the Reshaping of U.S. Foreign Policy.'' Edited by Glad and Chris Dolan. (2004) {{ISBN|140396548X}} * ''An Outsider in the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the Making of American Foreign Policy'' (2009) {{ISBN|9780801448157}} * ''Key Pittman: The Tragedy of a Senate Insider'' (2010) {{ISBN|9780231515658}}
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links ==
* [https://archives.library.sc.edu/repositories/6/resources/151 Betty Glad Papers] at South Carolina Political Collections at the University of South Carolina {{authority control}}
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