Mark & Mary Stevens School of Medicine

James M. Glaser joined Santa Clara University in July 2024 after serving over 33 years as a faculty member and 10 years as Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. As the chief academic officer at SCU, he oversees a broad portfolio including the College and all the schools, two centers of distinction, libraries, academic support programs, student life and wellness programs, global engagement, and enrollment management. Working closely with President Sullivan, he strategizes on how best to move the institution forward as it pursues its critical educational mission and its quest to be a place of significant knowledge creation.

Glaser received his B.A. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. A noted scholar of electoral politics and American political behavior, he is the co-author (with Jeffrey M. Berry and Deborah J. Schildkraut) of the forthcoming book Everyday Democracy: Liberals, Conservatives, and Their Routine Political Lives (University of Chicago Press), which looks at how the habits and attitudes of ordinary liberals and conservatives shape the health of American democracy. His previous books include Changing Minds, if Not Hearts: Political Remedies to Racial Issues (2013, University of Pennsylvania Press, with Timothy J. Ryan), The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics (2005, Yale University Press), and Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South (1996, Yale University Press). The latter two each received the Southern Political Science Association’s V.O. Key Prize awarded to the year’s best book on Southern politics. Both books were also named among the year's “Outstanding Academic Titles” by Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries.  His work has also appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, and Political Science Quarterly.