Administration
Director: Cornell W. Clayton
Email: cwclayton@wsu.edu
Phone:
509-335-2427
Curriculum vitae
Cornell W. Clayton is the Claudius O. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science and has been the director of the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service since 2008. He earned his D.Phil. in politics from Oxford University in 1990 and joined the WSU faculty in 1992. His research focuses on American political institutions, law, and judicial politics, and he is currently working on a book entitled The Supreme Court and the Political Regime, to be published by the University of Chicago Press. Previous books include: Washington State Government and Politics (WSU Press, 2004), The Supreme Court in American Politics (University of Press of Kansas, 1999), Supreme Court Decision-Making (University of Chicago, 1999), Government Lawyers (University of Press of Kansas, 1995), and The Politics of Justice (M.E. Sharpe, 1992). Clayton currently also serves as the co-editor of Political Research Quarterly, the journal of the Western Political Science Association.
Assistant Director: Richard Elgar
Email: relgar@wsu.edu
Phone: 509-335-3477
Secretary Senior: Kara Johnson
Email: karafjohnson@wsu.edu
Phone: 509-335-4264
Contact Us
Foley Institute
Washington State University
PO Box 645136
Pullman, WA 99164-5136
509-335-3477
tsfoley@wsu.edu
The institute's main office is located in Bryan Hall 316.