Bernard Grofman

Professor Grofman received his B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Universityof Chicago in 1972. He has been teaching at the University of California, Irvine since 1976 and a Full Professor since 1980. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, visiting professor at the University of Michigan and at the University of Washington, and quest scholar at the Brookings Institution. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Mannheim (Germany) at Kansai University, Osaka (Japan), at the University of Bologna (Italy), at the Berlin Science Center (Germany), at the Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (Spain), at the University of Paris, II (France) and at Nuffield College, Oxford University (England), and a short term scholar-in-residence at the University of Tilburg (Netherlands) and the University of Victoria (Canada). He has published more than two hundred research articles and co-edited or co-authored some 20 books, most on topics related to redistricting, comparative electoral processes, and voting rights. His work has repeatedly been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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