Patricia Sykes

Associate Professor
SPA: Government

• Professor Sykes's teaching and research focus on U.S. government and political development, comparative politics, public policy and administration, democratic theory, and gender studies. She is the author of several books and articles on comparative institutions, and she has appeared before the Committee on Rules in the U.S. House of Representatives and on CBS, NBC, CNN, the BBC, and other media outlets. Professor Sykes’s conference experience includes more than twenty five national and international presentations. She is a past recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Lilly Endowment. She is a former Fulbright Senior Scholar in political science at Trinity College Dublin and a former Visiting Research Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. Professor Sykes is the 2008 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Political Science in Australia.

• Degrees

  Ph.D. Yale University
  M.Ph. Yale University
  M.A. Yale University
  B.A. Boston College