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Allen Wilcox
Allen Wilcox, Professor, has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. He is the author or editor of books on legislative voting and on public opinion and political attitudes. His articles have appeared in a variety of American journals and government publications. He is currently conducting several collaborative and solo research projects involving political ideology, values and behavior. His teaching interests include public opinion, interest groups, urban politics, environmental policy, and research methodology.
Al serves on the governing board of Common Cause and is Vice-President of a community awareness group called impact. High points of his early career include batting .500 (exactly!) In the little league and playing "swing" man on the junior varsity of the legendary University of Chicago Maroons. He is, however, not a swing man in any sense of the word.
He regularly attempts to hide his scintillating wit and keen analytic insights from his colleagues lest they became chartreuse with envy. He altruistically belongs to a group of "following" scholars who, appropriately, follow "leading" scholars around, otherwise they could not be leading. As he becomes better at this, there is the danger that he could became a leading following scholar, (LFS). Finally, his hobbies include making and eating fudge, trying to keep his free throw percentage at 80% minimum, collecting books (an activity which interestingly appears strange to many of his colleagues).
Current Research:
The Structure of Poverty Attributions; The Measurement of Values: When the Latent Becomes Manifest; Value Structure: Underlying Dimensions or Mutual Causality; Geographical Dimensions of Social Identity; Indices of Qualitative Variation; Multiple Regression: The Path Not Taken