{{Short description|American political scientist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Gregory S. Mahler | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age |1950|8|12|mf=y}} | birth_place = Palo Alto, California, United States | field = political science, Canadian Studies, Israeli politics, parliamentary studies | work_institution = Earlham College | alma_mater = Oberlin College | known_for = | prizes = }}
'''Gregory S. Mahler''' is an American political scientist with a general interest in comparative politics, and more specific interests in legislatures and constitutionalism.
== Education == Mahler completed his undergraduate studies at Oberlin College and received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}}
== Career == {{BLP sources section|date=March 2019}} Mahler taught political science at the University of Vermont for 12 years, then moved to the University of Mississippi where he served as Chair of the Political Science Department.<ref name="AcademicDean" /> He subsequently moved to Kalamazoo College, where he served as the Chief Academic Officer of the College for ten years.<ref name="AcademicDean">{{cite news |title=Earlham gets new academic dean |publisher=The Herald-Palladium |date=5 April 2007|id={{ProQuest|441057208}} }}</ref> Thereafter he moved to Earlham College, in Richmond, Indiana, where he is a former Academic Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs.<ref>{{cite web |title=Greg Mahler |url=http://earlham.edu/profile/?t=dir&id=12034&r=3058&d= |website=Earlham College |accessdate=26 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Berrett |first1=Dan |title=For Cash-Strapped Colleges, Handling Donors' Conditions Can Be a Delicate Dance |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/For-Cash-Strapped-Colleges/129671 |accessdate=26 February 2019 |work=The Chronicle of Higher Education |date=6 November 2011}}</ref>
Professor Mahler's scholarly work has been published widely. He has contributed to numerous journals and edited volumes, and has authored or edited over twenty-five books that fall into three broad groups: comparative politics, politics of Israel and the Middle East, and politics of Canada. In 1996 he was a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at which time he also served as a visiting scholar at the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs where he ran a workshop and authored a book titled ''Constitutionalism and Palestinian Constitutional Development''. Dr. Mahler was one of the co-founders of the Association for Israel Studies in the United States,{{citation needed|date=March 2019}} and served as President of that group for a two-year period.<ref>{{citation|title=Message From the President|first=Gregory|last=Mahler|journal=Newsletter of the Association for Israel Studies|volume=7|issue=1|date=Fall 1991|page=3|jstor=41804668}}</ref> He also served as President of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States.
Mahler has lectured widely on Israeli politics, the Middle East peace process, constitutional development, Canadian politics, Quebec politics, and many other topics. In addition to numerous speaking engagements in the United States, he has lectured in such foreign settings as Albania, Amsterdam, Beijing, Cardiff, Côte d'Ivoire, Jerusalem, Liberia, Mauritania, Mexico City, Minsk, Moldova, Moscow, Port-of-Spain, and Tel Aviv.
Mahler has had numerous grants to support his research over the years, including support from the U.S. Department of Education (two Fulbright grants), the U.S. Department of State, the Government of Canada, the Organization of American States, the Government of Israel, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, and the U.S.S.R. Institute for the Study of the U.S. and Canada.
==Books== *''Comparative Politics: Exploring Concepts and Institutions Across Nations'' (6th ed., Lynne Riener Pub., 2019) *''Principles of Comparative Politics'' (Pearson, 2013) *''The Arab-Israeli Conflict An Introduction and Documentary Reader'' (with Alden R. W. Mahler, Routledge, 2008; 2nd ed., 2018)<ref>Review of ''The Arab—Israeli Conflict: An Introduction and Documentary Reader'': * {{citation|last=Jensehaugen|first=Jørgen|date=May 2010|issue=3|journal=Journal of Peace Research|jstor=20752179|pages=350–351|title=none|volume=47}} </ref> *''Politics and Government in Israel: The Maturation of a Modern State'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004; 3rd ed., 2016)<ref>Reviews of ''Politics and Government in Israel: The Maturation of a Modern State'': * {{citation|last=Safran|first=William|date=Winter 2005|issue=2|journal=Israel Studies Forum|jstor=41805151|pages=150–153|title=none|volume=20}} * {{citation|last=Cohen-Almagor|first=Raphael|date=July 2012|doi=10.1080/14725886.2012.686571|issue=2|journal=Journal of Modern Jewish Studies|pages=286–288|title=Politics and Government in Israel. The Maturation of a Modern State|volume=11|s2cid=145012645}} * {{citation|last=Sinai|first=Joshua|date=August 2016|issue=4|journal=Perspectives on Terrorism|jstor=26297640|page=107|title=none|volume=10}} </ref> *''Israel in the Nineties: Development and Conflict'' (edited with Frederick Lazin, University of Florida Press, 1996)<ref>Reviews of ''Israel in the Nineties: Development and Conflict'': * {{citation|last=Kumaraswamy|first=P R.|date=July 1997|issue=3|journal=Domes|page=51|title=Review|volume=6|id={{ProQuest|205056409}}|doi=10.1111/j.1949-3606.1997.tb00744.x}} * {{citation|last=Mendilow|first=Jonathan|date=Fall 1998|issue=1|journal=Israel Studies Bulletin|jstor=41805401|pages=15–17|title=none|volume=14}} * {{citation|last=Brinner|first=William M.|date=Winter 1998|issue=2|journal=Middle East Studies Association Bulletin|jstor=23061844|page=275|title=none|volume=32|doi=10.1017/S0026318400038116}} </ref> *''Contemporary Canadian Politics, 1988–1994: An Annotated Bibliography'' (Greenwood Press, 1995) *'' Israel at the Crossroads'' (edited with Efraim Karsh, British Academic Press, 1994)<ref>Reviews of ''Israel at the Crossroads'': * {{citation|last=Tal|first=Lawrence|date=January 1995|doi=10.2307/2624084|issue=1|journal=International Affairs|jstor=2624084|page=187|title=none|volume=71}} * {{citation|last=Silverbrug|first=Sanford R.|date=July 1995|issue=3|journal=Domes|page=24|title=Review|volume=4|id={{ProQuest|205039161}}|doi=10.1111/j.1949-3606.1995.tb00567.x}} </ref> *''Israel after Begin'' (edited, State University of New York Press, 1990)<ref>Reviews of ''Israel After Begin'': * {{citation|last=Dowty|first=Alan|date=Fall 1991|issue=1|journal=Newsletter of the Association for Israel Studies|jstor=41804677|pages=29–31|title=none|volume=7}} * {{citation|last=Peretz|first=Don|date=Summer 1992|doi=10.2307/2537673|issue=4|journal=Journal of Palestine Studies|jstor=2537673|pages=105–106|title=none|volume=21}} </ref> *''Israel: Government and Politics in a Maturing State'' (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990)<ref>Review of ''Israel: Government and Politics in a Maturing State'': * {{citation|last=Peretz|first=Don|date=December 1990|issue=2|journal=Middle East Studies Association Bulletin|jstor=23060948|pages=229–231|title=none|volume=24|doi=10.1017/S0026318400023440}} </ref> *''Contemporary Canadian Politics: An Annotated Bibliography, 1970–1987'' (Greenwood Press, 1988) *''New Dimensions of Canadian Federalism: Canada in a Comparative Perspective'' (Fairlegh Dickinson Press, 1987)<ref>Reviews of ''New Dimensions of Canadian Federalism: Canada in a Comparative Perspective'': * {{citation|last=Cody|first=Howard|date=Spring 1988|doi=10.2307/3330470|issue=2, Bicommunal Societies and Polities|journal=Publius|jstor=3330470|pages=175–178|title=none|volume=18|doi-access=free}} * {{citation|last=Chandler|first=William Mayhew|date=December 1988|issue=4|journal=Canadian Public Administration|pages=635–638|title=none|volume=31}} </ref> *''Bibliography of Israeli Politics'' (Westview Press, 1985) *''Comparative Politics: An Institutional and Cross-National Approach'' (Schenkman Pub. Co., 1983; Prentice Hall, 2008) *''Readings in the Israeli Political System: Structures and Processes'' (edited, University Press of America, 1982) *''The Knesset: Parliament in the Israeli Political System'' (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1981)<ref>Reviews of ''The Knesset: Parliament in the Israeli Political System'': * {{citation|last=Mikardo|first=I.|issue=3|journal=The Parliamentarian|page=193|title=none|volume=63|year=1982}} * {{citation|last=Divine|first=Donna Robinson|date=December 1982|doi=10.2307/1963037|issue=4|journal=The American Political Science Review|jstor=1963037|pages=936–937|title=none|volume=76}} * {{citation|last=Habib|first=Henry|date=December 1982|issue=4|journal=Canadian Journal of Political Science|jstor=3229850|pages=849–850|title=none|volume=15|doi=10.1017/S0008423900052318}} * {{citation|last=Rothman|first=Rozann|date=February 1983|doi=10.2307/2130350|issue=1|journal=The Journal of Politics|jstor=2130350|pages=253–254|title=none|volume=45}} </ref>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080429005600/https://earlham.edu/publicaffairs/content/pressroom/archive/2007/march/070330s-mahler.php/ Earlham College, Press Release. March 30, 2007. Earlham Welcomes Gregory Mahler as New Academic Dean]
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