John Hart
Emeritus Professor at Australian National UniversityJohn Hart was born in London, England. He gained a B.A. Honours degree in Political Science (1969) and a Ph.D. (1977) from the University of Kent in England. He held teaching posts at the University of Keele (1972-73) and the University of Wales (1973-1978) before moving to Australia in 1978 to take up a post at the Australian National University in Canberra in the Department of Political Science. He retired in January 2013 and is now a member of the Emeritus Faculty at ANU. Dr. Hart has also been an American Council of Learned Societies Visiting Research Scholar in American Government (1972), a Visiting Fellow at the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies (1982), Visiting Professor of Government at Georgetown University (1984), and a Visiting Research Fellow at the American University (1993).
Dr. Hart taught courses on American government and politics and has a particular research interest in the American presidency and presidential elections. He is the author of 'The Presidential Branch: From Washington to Clinton' (Chatham House, 1995), co-author of 'Roosevelt to Reagan: The Development of the Modern Presidency' (Harper & Row, 1988), and numerous published articles on the American presidency in American and international journals. He is also a frequent commentator on Australian radio and television on American affairs and writes, irregularly, on American elections for 'The Conversation'.