Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director, Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center

B.A.-University of Nevada, Reno-1990
M.P.A.- University of Nevada, Reno- 1993
Ph.D.-Texas A&M University-1999

Political Institutions
Public Policy and Administration
Research Methods

101 Monnet Hall
325-6372
gkrutz@ou.edu

Glen Krutz joined the Department of Political Science in 2002. He is associate director of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at The University of Oklahoma and an associate professor of political science. Before joining OU, he served on the faculty of Arizona State University and helped run two large-scale National Science Foundation projects as a doctoral student at Texas A&M University.

He is the author of Hitching a Ride: Omnibus Legislating in the U.S. Congress (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2001). His research has also appeared in the discipline’s top general and specialty journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Journal of Legislative Studies, Electoral Studies, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Party Politics, Canadian Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, and as scholarly book chapters in volumes from the University of Chicago Press, Congressional Quarterly Press, and Lexington Books.

In 2000, he won the American Political Science Association’s E.E. Schattschneider Award for the nation’s best dissertation in American government and politics. The Legislative Studies Section of the APSA that same year awarded Glen the Carl Albert Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in the area of legislative studies. He also received the 1999 George W. Kunze Prize, which is given annually to the outstanding graduating Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University.

Prior to pursuing an academic career, Dr. Krutz worked in politics and policy. He served as a campaign assistant and then Capitol Hill aide to U.S. Senator Richard H. Bryan. He also served as research analyst (and federal liaison), then Special Assistant to the Chancellor of the University of Nevada System (now called the Nevada System of Higher Education).  These practical experiences included work in policy and institutional analysis, constituent and customer service, strategic planning and organizational assessment, governmental relations, and budgeting. He continues to provide strategic planning advice to select public organizations and private firms on occasion.