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Email woolley@fdu.edu

Bio Peter is Professor of Government at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s and heads up the graduate School of Public and Global Affairs with programs in the US and Canada. He is also the founder of the University’s independent survey research group, PublicMind, nurturing it from an obscure upstart in polling to a nationally cited source of public opinion on campaigns and elections as well as a variety of social issues such as automobile safety, eminent domain, gambling, the impact of candidates’ gender on voters, and even the impact on New Jersey of the TV shows, The Sopranos and Jersey Shore. His research in public opinion and his political commentary have been cited in news outlets from Alaska’s Ketchikan Daily News to the Washington Post, and from CSPAN to CNN. Woolley is author of two books on U.S.-Japan defense relations, Japan’s Navy: Politics and Paradox and Geography and Japan’s Strategic Choices, and co-editor of American Politics: Classic Argument and Current Controversy. He is a contributor to such professional journals as The Polling Report, Survey Practice, Fordham Law Review Res Gestae, Strategic Review, The Naval War College Review, The Journal of Conflict Studies, The Journal of East and West Studies, Asian Survey, The Common Review and his personal favorite, The Journal of Irreproducible Results. He was awarded the Ph.D. by the University of Pittsburgh. He studied at the Sorbonne and at the University of Bordeaux and later in Japan as a member of a Fulbright/Hays Group Project. He was an Advanced Research Scholar at the US Naval War College and won the Edward Miller History Prize from the US Naval War College. His team is currently engaged in a multi-stage study of the perceptions and realities of residential segregation.

Position IASIA Regional Vice President for the North America Region

Institution Fairleigh Dickinson University

Country United States of America

Peter J. Woolley

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