Terry Sullivan

About

Department of Polictical Science, University of North Carolina
Research: Making a Difference: Political Trade Craft in Presidential Leadership
Fellowship period: Winter - Spring 2010

Terry Sullivan serves on the faculty in political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an American Political Science Congressional Fellow, a Lilly Endowment Teaching Fellow, the first Carl Albert Policy Fellow, and a Spencer-Teagle Teaching Fellow. He is past president of the Presidency Research Group, a worldwide association of scholars focused on the American presidency.

Professor Sullivan is cofounder and executive director of the White House Transition Project a nonpartisan consortium assisting the American presidential transition.

Professor Sullivan has two central research interests: executive institutional dynamics and presidential tradecraft. His current research agenda includes developing a minute-by-minute accounting of the activities of Presidents Eisenhower through G.H.W. Bush during their first hundred days and a project on presidential leadership entitled, Making a Difference: LBJ and Political Tradecraft in Presidential Leadership.