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Sept. 18, 2007

Author to Serve as 2008 Visiting McGovern Professor

Tracy Campbell

MITCHELL – Tracy Campbell, co-director of the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center at the University of Kentucky, is the 2008 McGovern Visiting Professor of Leadership and Public Service at Dakota Wesleyan University.

Campbell will co-teach PSL 320 Public Service: Ethics and Public Policy, which will be offered on Thursday evenings in January and February, and over two weekends in March.

"Our public service students are really excited about the opportunity to learn from someone so respected in the field," said Donald Simmons, chair of the Department of Public Service and Leadership at DWU. "Campbell literally wrote the book on corruption and the American political system."

Booklist declared that Campbell’s book, “Deliver the Vote: A History of American Election Fraud, An American Tradition—1742-2004,” published in 2005 by Carroll and Graf, “stands without rivals as the most balanced and comprehensive on the subject."

Campbell is the author of two previous books: “The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars” (Univ. Press of Ky., 1993) and “Short of the Glory: The Fall and Redemption of Edward F. Prichard, Jr.” (Univ. Press of Ky., 1998). He is currently writing a social history of the St. Louis Gateway Arch, 1933-1968.

Campbell and his wife, Leslie, live in Louisville, Ky., with their two children.

Anyone interested in enrolling in PSL 320 may contact the registrar’s office at 605-995-2676. The first class meets at 6 p.m., January 10, 2008, in the McGovern Library.