Pederson, William D. 1946–

(William David Pederson)

PERSONAL: Born March 17, 1946, in Eugene, OR; son of Jon M. and Rose Marie (Ryan) Pederson. Education: University of Oregon, B.S., 1967, M.A., 1972, Ph.D., 1979. Hobbies and other interests: Reading, jogging, collecting foreign Abraham Lincoln stamps.

ADDRESSES: Home—5734 Roma Dr., Shreveport, LA 71105-4225. Office—Department of History and Social Sciences, 321BH, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, 1 University Pl., Shreveport, LA 71115-2301; fax: 318-795-4203. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, teacher, 1977–79; Westminster College, Fulton, MO, teacher, 1979–80; Yankton College, Yankton, SD, teacher, 1980–81; Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Shreveport, professor of political science, 1981–, founding director of American Studies Program, 1982–91, 1995–, and International Lincoln Center for American Studies, 1982–, founder of presidential conference series, 1992, holder of American studies chair in liberal arts, 1999. Georgetown University, professor, 1997–; Centenary College of Louisiana, teacher, 1999, 2005; also taught at University of Oregon, American University, and Southern University in Shreveport. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, member of executive committee for Cross-Currents Series, 1997–. Lincoln Forum, member of board of directors and national advisory board, 1996–; Smithsonian Institution, resident associate; member of Center for the Study of the Presidency and Presidency Research Group. Shreveport Mayor's Committee on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, member, 1986–89. Military service: U.S. Army, 1968–70.

MEMBER: International Lincoln Association (president, 1990–92; chair of board of directors, 1998–), International PEN (Center USA West), International Society of Political Psychology (founding member), International Studies Association, Association of Third World Studies (life member), American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, American Society of Public Administration, German Studies Association, Abraham Lincoln Association (member of board of directors, 1994–95), Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (life member), Washington Semester and Internship Association (founding member), Southern Historical Association (life member), Louisiana Historical Association (life member; member of board of directors, 2001–04), Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin (life member), North Louisiana Historical Association (life member), Amnesty International, Phi Kappa Phi (life member; president-elect of local chapter, 1998), Pi Sigma Alpha (founder of Nu Chi chapter, 1983).

AWARDS, HONORS: National Endowment for the Humanities, fellow at New York University, 1981, fellow at Harvard University, 1985; Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, winner of essay competition, 1987, for a column on the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, and Special Humanities Award, 1998; Annual Achievement Award, Abraham Lincoln Association, 1994; Regional Award in Humanities, Cultural Olympiad, 1995–96; Association of Third World Studies, distinguished leadership award and appreciation award, 2003, and presidential award, 2004; grants from Kosciuszko Foundation, Community Foundation of Shreveport-Bossier, and Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Ann M. McLaurin, and contributor) The Rating Game in American Politics, Irvington (New York, NY), 1987.

(Editor, with Norman W. Provizer, and contributor) Grassroots Constitutionalism: Shreveport, the South, and the Supreme Law of the Land, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1988.

(Editor and contributor) The "Barberian" Presidency, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 1989.

(Editor) Governmental Gridlock: Congressional-Presidential Relations in the U.S., Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston, NY), 1991.

(Editor) Lincoln and Leadership: A Model for a Summer Teachers Institute, Louisiana Lincoln Group (Shreveport, LA), 1993.

(Editor, with Norman W. Provizer) Great Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 1993.

(Editor, with Frank J. Williams, and contributor) Abraham Lincoln: Sources and Style of Leadership, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1994.

(Editor, with Frank J. Williams, and author of preface) Abraham Lincoln: Contemporary, Savas Woodbury (Campbell, CA), 1995.

(Editor, with Mark J. Rozell) FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy, Praeger Publishers (Westport, CT), 1997.

(Editor, with Byron W. Daynes) The New Deal and Public Policy, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1998.

(Editor, with John Y. Simon) Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, and the Civil War, Savas Woodbury (Campbell, CA), 1999.

(Editor, with Mark J. Rozell and Frank J. Williams) George Washington and the Origins of the American Presidency, Praeger Publishers (Westport, CT), 2000.

(Editor, with Kevin Cope) George Washington's Image in American Culture, AMS Press (New York, NY), 2001.

(Editor, with Nancy Beck Young and Byron W. Daynes) Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Culture, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 2001.

(Editor, with Thomas P. Wolf and Byron W. Daynes) Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress: The New Deal and Its Aftermath, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 2001.

(Editor, with Ethan Fishman and Mark J. Rozell) George Washington: Foundation of Leadership and Character, Praeger Publishers (Westport, CT), 2001.

(Editor, with Norman W. Provizer) Classic Cases in American Constitutional Law, WestGroup (St. Paul, MN), 2001.

(Editor, with Thomas C. Howard) Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Formation of the Modern World, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 2003.

(Editor, with Frank J. Williams) Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln: Competing Perspectives on Two Great Presidencies, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 2003.

(Editor, with Norman W. Provizer, and contributor) Leaders of the Pack: Polls and Case Studies of Great Supreme Court Justices, Peter Lang (New York, NY), 2003.

(Editor, with Stephen K. Shaw and Frank J. Williams) Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court, M.E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 2004.

The FDR Years, Facts on File (New York, NY), 2006.

(With Marilyn R. Bedgood) Theodore Roosevelt's Bear Hunt in Louisiana, 2006.

Contributor to books, including Dimensions of the Modern Presidency, edited by Edward N. Kearny, Forum Press, 1981; Morality and Conviction in American Politics, edited by Martin Shann and Susan Duffy, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1990; Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American, edited by Natalie A. Naylor, Douglas Brinkley, and John Allen Gable, Heart of the Lakes Publishing (Interlaken, NY), 1992; The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter, edited by Herbert D. Rosenbaum and Alexej Ugrinsky, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1994; and Debating the Issues: America's Government and Politics. edited by Robert P. Watson, Longman Publishers (New York, NY), 2005. Contributor of more than 150 articles and reviews to history and political science journals and newspapers, including Shreveport Journal, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly. Guest editor, Quarterly Journal of Ideology, 1994, and White House Studies; editor, Political Science Educator, 1996–98, and International Abraham Lincoln Journal, 2000–; coeditor, Journal of Contemporary Thought, 1997–. Founding editor, Abraham Lincoln Abroad, International Lincoln Association Newsletter, Lincolnator, Abraham Lincoln at Home, and Washington Semesters and Internships, all 1998–.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Editing Lincoln Lessons: Essays Commemorating Abraham Lincoln's Birthday Bicentennial, with Frank J. Williams.

SIDELIGHTS: William D. Pederson once told CA: "Although I have contributed numerous political commentary columns to newspapers, most of my writing has been published in journals and volumes intended for academic audiences. Underlying themes in my work reflect both my career research interest in the political psychology of leaders and the causes of revolts in prison camps, as well as my experiences as a university political science professor and director of a multidisciplinary American studies program. Based upon my interest in political leaders, in 1992 I founded the first presidential conference series in the South at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. This triennial conference series follows the rank order of America's greatest presidents as selected by scholars. Abraham Lincoln was the subject of the first conference of the series, which also was the first academic conference on the sixteenth president ever to be held in the Deep South. The next year I offered the first Summer Institute on Lincoln for secondary teachers ever held in the nation. The conference resulted in two edited volumes and two newsletters for which I am the founding editor. In addition to my continuing editorship of the two Lincoln newsletters, I also edit Washington Semesters and Internships, a newsletter that grew from my interest as the resident director of the first independent Washington semester at a public university in the South."