Professor Klinghard earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 2004. He is presently completing a book on political parties in the late nineteenth century, which aims to explain the nature of so-called "party decline" throughout the twentieth century. His article on the transformation of presidential party leadership will appear in the December, 2005, edition of Presidential Studies Quarterly. He has taught at the College of Charleston, Clark University, and Brandeis University. At Holy Cross, he teaches courses on political parties and interest groups, race and ethnic politics, and American Political Development.
