Join the Cornell Club of Cape Cod to hear Mark Petracca '77 discuss the first 100 days of the Biden Administration.
About the speaker:
Mark Petracca received an A.B. in Government from Cornell University (1977), and an A.M. (1979) and PhD (1986) in Political Science from the University of Chicago. A student of American politics, constitutional law, and democratic political theory, Petracca has written widely for scholarly and public audiences, appeared frequently on TV and radio for more than 30 years in the U.S, and abroad, testified on multiple occasions before the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, and served as an expert witness on numerous occasions in various state and federal court cases.
Petracca taught at the University of Chicago, Amherst College, Beijing University (PRC) as well as the University of California, Irvine (UCI) from 1984 until his retirement in 2018. While at UCI he served as Chair of the Department of Political Science for 13 years (1996-2002; 2004-2011) and for 7 years as Associate Dean for the School of Social Sciences (2011-2018).
A well regarded teacher, Petracca received numerous awards for teaching excellence while at UCI including the 2002-2003 UCI Academic Senate’s “Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award for Teaching” (the university’s highest teaching honor). He and his wife, Terry Schuster '76 reside in Mashpee, MA.
When:
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm ET
Questions?
Please contact Diane VerShure diane.verschure@cornell.edu with any event questions.
Please contact Cole Johnston cjj39@cornell.edu with any registration questions.
