CURRICULUM VITAE HARRY L. WILSON Department of Public Affairs 2437 Trinity Road Roanoke College Troutville, VA 24175 Salem, VA 24153 (540) 992-1333 (540) 375-2415 wilson@roanoke.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. Political Science, Rutgers University, January 1988 Major Field: American Politics Minor Fields: Public Law and Methodology M.A. Political Science, Penn State University, 1983 B.A. Journalism, Penn State University, 1978 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Professor, Roanoke College, 2005-present Associate Professor, Roanoke College, 1991-2005 Assistant Professor, Roanoke College, 1986-1991 Instructor, Rutgers University, 1984-1986 AWARDS AND HONORS Roanoke College Faculty Scholar, 2005-2007 Fulbright Lecturing Award to Russia, 1995 Research Assistantship, Rutgers University, 1984-1986 Teaching Assistantship, Rutgers University, 1982-1984 Teaching Assistantship, Penn State University, 1979-1981 Kappa Tau Alpha, Penn State University, 1978 RELATED EXPERIENCE Director, Institute for Policy and Opinion Research, Roanoke College, 1991-present Associate, The Issues Management Group, Roanoke, 2002 2006 Vice-President, BKW Research Group, 1994-1997 Research Assistant, Center for the American Woman and Politics, Rutgers University, 1984-1986 Research Assistant, Political Science Data Lab, Rutgers University, 1979 Staff Reporter, Today's Post, King of Prussia, PA, 1978
PUBLICATIONS Editorial Board member and contributor, Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society, online Idea Exchange, Academic Solutions database, ABC-CLIO, 2012. Editorial Board member and contributor, Enduring Questions, online Idea Exchange, Academic Solutions database, ABC-CLIO, 2011. Editorial Board member and author of 12 entries in Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture and the Law, Gregg Lee Carter, ed. ABC-CLIO, 2012. Guns, Gun Control, and Elections: The Politics and Policy of Firearms, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2007. The 2000 Virginia Senate Race, Robert Holsworth, Stephen K. Medvic, Harry L. Wilson, Robert Dudley, and Scott Keeter, in The Other Campaign: Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 2000 Congressional Elections, David B. Magleby, ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Two entries ( Concealed Weapons Laws and Uniform Crime Reports ) in Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture and the Law, Gregg Lee Carter, ed. ABC- CLIO, 2002. The 2000 Virginia Senate Race, Bob Dudley, Scott Keeter, Harry Wilson, Robert Holsworth, and Stephen Medvic, PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 34, No. 2, June, 2001. When Women Lose: A Study of Press Coverage of Two Gubernatorial Campaigns, John David Rausch, Mark J. Rozell and Harry L. Wilson, Women & Politics, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1999. "Virginia: The Politics of Concealed Weapons," in The Changing Politics of Gun Control, John Bruce and Clyde Wilcox, eds., Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Mark J. Rozell, coauthor. "The Roanoke Valley Poll Final Report," annual publication of The Center for Community Research, Roanoke College, 1991-1994, 1996-99. "Local v. National Press Coverage of Virginia's 1993 Gubernatorial Campaign," State and Local Government Review, Vol. 28, No. 1 (Winter, 1996), Mark J. Rozell, co-author. "Media Treatment of Black Candidates: The 1989 Virginia Gubernatorial Campaign," Virginia Social Science Journal Vol. 26, (Winter, 1991). "Natural Treatment and Control Settings for Research on the Effects of Television," Communication Research, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Jan. 1986), Scott Keeter, co-author.
PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND PANEL MEMBERSHIPS Media and New Technologies in Election 2008, Hollins University s Distinguished Speaker Series, April 2, 2008. The Virginia Elections of 2005, The Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, Charleston, SC, March 2-3, 2006. Gun Control Coverage in Elite Newspapers: The New York Times and The Washington Post. 2005 American Society of Criminology Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Nov. 16-19, 2005, Aaron Cook, co-author. Gun Policy in the News: Coverage of Guns and Gun Control by CBS News and The New York Times. 2004 American Society of Criminology Conference, Nashville, TN, Nov. 16-20, 2004. Session Chair, Changing Channels: The Impact of TV Shows and News Coverage on Its Viewers. 2004 American Society of Criminology Conference, Nashville, TN, Nov. 16-20, 2004. Gun Control in the 2003 Virginia General Assembly. The Virginia Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, March 22, 2003 Public Opinion and Gun Control Utility: Not as Simple or Coherent as We Thought? Joint Meetings of the Canadian Law and Society Association and the Law and Society Association Vancouver, British Columbia, May 30 June 1, 2002. Issue Advocacy and Soft Money in the 2000 Virginia Senate Race, Bob Dudley, Harry Wilson, Robert Holsworth, Scott Keeter, and Stephen Medvic, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2001. The Minority and Religious Vote. Panel Chair, Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Portland, OR, May 14-17, 2000. Parties and Realignment in the South. Panel Discussant, The Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, Charleston SC, March 2-3, 2000. Elections in Virginia, 1999 and 2000, Panelist, 1999 Virginia Conference of Political Scientists, Washington and Lee University, December 5, 1999. The 1998 Congressional Election, Panelist, 1998 Virginia Conference of Political Scientists, University of Richmond, December 4, 1998. The Gender Gap in Virginia: Gubernatorial Election Polls, Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, St. Louis, MO, May 14-17, 1998. Polls in the 1997 Virginia Statewide Election: Right and Wrong, The Citadel Symposium on Southern Politics, Charleston SC, March 5-6, 1998. Presented paper and organized panel. "Fear of Crime and Community Policing in Public Housing," Annual Conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Norfolk, VA, May 15-18, 1997. "Virginia and the Coming Election," Panelist, Annual Meeting of the Virginia Social Science
Association, George Mason University, March 21-22, 1997. "Media Coverage of Virginia's 1993 Gubernatorial Campaign," The Citadel Conference on Southern Politics, Charleston, SC, April 5-7, 1994, Mark J. Rozell, co-author. "Popular Opinion in the Roanoke Valley," Southern Regional Honors Council Annual Conference, Roanoke, April 2-4, 1992. "Fear of Crime: If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Explain It," Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, November 20-24, 1991. Member, 1990 People to People Mission to the Soviet Union for Leaders in the Criminal Justice System, May 7-21, 1990. Moderator, "Using Feminism to Change Politics," Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference, Roanoke College, March 23-25, 1990. "A Black in the Governor's Mansion: The Media in the 1989 Virginia Election," Annual Popular Culture Association Meeting, Toronto, Canada, March 7-10, 1990. Panelist, "Roundtable Discussion of Future Directions of the Rehnquist Court," Virginia Political Science Association meeting, Hollins College, Dec. 2, 1989. Member, 1989 Virginia Assembly, "The Future of Virginia's Courts," University of Virginia, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 1989. "How American Are Canadians?: The Role of the Media," North Carolina Political Science Association Meeting, East Carolina University, April 21-22, 1989. "A Snapshot or a Panorama?: Getting the Whole Picture in Sentencing Reform," Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Vail, CO, June 9-12, 1988. "The Role of the Prosecutor in a Determinate Sentencing Scheme: What New Jersey Prosecutors Think," Presented at the 1987 Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Washington, D.C., June 9-13, 1987. REVIEWS Reviewer for Virginia Social Science Journal, 2012. Reviewed John J. Lott, Jr., More Guns Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, 3rd Edition, in Criminal Law Bulletin, Vol. 46, No. 6, 2010. Reviewer for Pew Charitable Trusts, 2010. Reviewed Kristin A. Goss, Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America, in Political Science Quarterly, June, 2007. Reviewed Edwards, Wattenberg, and Lineberry, Government in America, Addison Wesley Longman, 2000.
Review of Fitzmaurice and Pease, The Psychology of Judicial Sentencing and von Hirsch, Past or Future Crimes: Deservedness and Dangerousness in the Sentencing of Criminals, in Law & Society Review, Vol. 21, No. 5, 1988.
GRANT ACTIVITIES Roanoke College, Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, 2010-2012 Roanoke College, Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, 2007-2009 Roanoke College Faculty Scholar, 2004-2006. Roanoke College, Sabbatical Leave, 2003, 2009. Roanoke College Research Grant, Media Coverage of Guns and Gun Control, 2003. Summer Research Award, Roanoke College, Gun Control Policy Making, 2001. Invited to Attend American Bar Association Conference "Technology and Teaching Law," March 6-7, 1997, Charleston, SC. Fulbright Lecturing Award to Russia at the Pskov Pedagogical Institute, 1995. Roanoke College Faculty Research Grant, "Statewide Survey during 1994 Virginia Gubernatorial Campaign." Roanoke College Faculty Research Grant, "Newspaper Coverage of the 1993 Virginia Gubernatorial Campaign." Summer Research Award, Roanoke College, "Fear of Crime in the Roanoke Valley," 1993. Invited to attend American Bar Association conference, "Rights in Conflict: The Individual v. the State and Beyond," 1988. Roanoke College Faculty Research Grant, "The Role of the Prosecutor in Criminal Sentencing," 1988. COLLEGE SERVICE Member, Faculty Affairs Committee, 2011 Co-chair, Department of Public Affairs, 2010-2011 Member, Dean Search Committee, 2008-2009 Member, Ad-hoc Committee on Tenure and Promotion, 2008-2009 Member, Professorships/Scholarships Task Force, 2007-2008 Member, Presidential Search Committee, 2007 Interim Chair, Department of Public Affairs, Fall, 2007 Director, Institute for Policy and Opinion Research, Roanoke College, 1991-present Center for Innovative Leadership, Roanoke College Representative, 2001-2005 Chair, Department of Public Affairs, 1997-2002 Member, Dean s Council, 1997-2002 Organized Virginia Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2000 Organized Faculty Summer Technology Institute on SPSS, 2000 Director, Roanoke College Small Business Workshops at Roanoke Higher Education Center, 1999-2001 Member, Compliance Committee, SACS Reaccredidation, 1999-2000 Member, Curriculum Committee, 1996-1999 Coordinator, Political Science, 1991-1993 Prelaw Advisor, 1986-1997, 2001-2002 Truman Scholarship Coordinator, 1987-1993 Member, Student Life Council, 1990-1993 Member, Student Conduct Board, 1989-1993, 1997- Chair, Faculty Research Committee, 1989-1990 Member, Faculty Affairs Committee, 1989-1990 Member, Faculty Research Committee, 1988-1989 January, 2013