Gerald M. Pomper

Gerald M. Pomper (born 1935) is an American political scientist and specialist in American elections and politics.^[1] Pomper is the Board of Governors Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University.^[2]

Gerald Pomper
Born	1935 (age 89–90) New York City, New York, United States
Academic background
Education	Columbia University (BA) Princeton University (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Institutions	City College of New York Rutgers University

Biography

Pomper was born in The Bronx in 1935 to Jewish immigrants from Poland.^[3] He grew up in Manhattan and graduated from Stuyvesant High School.^[4] He received his BA from Columbia University in 1955 on a Ford Foundation scholarship, majoring in political science and serving as managing editor of Columbia Daily Spectator.^[5] He then received his PhD from Princeton University.^[3]

He began his academic career at the City College of New York, before moving to Rutgers University and served as the founding chair of the political science department of Livingston College.^[3] He was a Fulbright scholar from 1971–1972, teaching at Tel Aviv University.^[6]

Pomper has been described as a leading authority in the field of election studies and was called the "Dean of American Political Science" by political historian Allan Lichtman.^[7][8][9]