Bob has taught at Colorado College since 1968. He received a B.A. from Williams College in 1957 and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1963. He worked on Capitol Hill for several years in the 1960s. He regularly teaches courses in American Government, State and Local Politics, and the Civil Rights Movement. He has participated as a campaign consultant or campaign manager in a number of political campaigns in Colorado. 

         He is the author of The Flawed Path to the Presidency 1992: Unfairness and Inequality in the Presidential Selection Process (State University of New York Press, 1995); The Flawed Path to the Governorship 1994: The Nationalization of a Colorado Statewide Election Campaign (University Press of America, 1996), Colorado Politics and Government: Governing the Centennial State (with Thomas E. Cronin) (University of Nebraska Press, 1993); To End all Segregation: The Politics of the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (University Press of America, 1990), American Government: We Are One (with John Whitman et al.) (Coronado, 1987), and he is the editor and major contributor to The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Passage of the Law that Ended Racial Segregation (State University of New York Press, 1997).   He has also self-published his book, Small States First, Large States Last: Reforming the Presidential Election Process 2000 on his web site.

 Courses:

PS 200  American Politics and Government
PS 203  Topics in Politics: Electoral Politics and Voting Behavior
PS 316  State and Local Government
PS 320  The United States Congress
PS 323  Minority Politics