Professor  Carol Weissert was the LeRoy Collins Eminent Scholar and Professor of Political Science at Florida State University from 2003-2021. She also served as director of the LeRoy Collins Institute, a statewide policy organization located at FSU. She has published in political science, public administration and public policy journals and is the author or co-author of four books.

 

Prior to coming to Tallahassee, she was professor of political science and director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University. Professor Weissert served as editor of: Publius: The Journal of Federalism for ten years.

 

She is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Political Science in Australia in 2016. She received the Daniel J. Elazar award for Distinguished Scholarship of the American Political Science Association and the Donald Stone Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Intergovernmental Relations of the American Society of Public Administration. She served as president of the Southern Political Science Association and on the executive council of the American Political Science Association. Her doctorate in political science is from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.