Academy Members

William G. Howell

University of Chicago

William G. Howell is Sydney Stein Professor of American Politics at the University of Chicago. He is the director of the Center for Effective Government. He has written widely on separation-of-powers issues and American political institutions, especially the presidency. He is the recipient, among other academic awards, of the Legacy Award for enduring research on executive politics, the William Riker award for the best book in political economy, the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress, the Richard Neustadt award for the best book on the American presidency, and the E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American Politics. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, and a former fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. His work has been supported by such foundations as the National Science Foundation, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Democracy Fund, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Bradley Foundation.

October 2024