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Peter Ubertaccio, Ph.D.
Director of the Joseph W. Martin Institute For Law and Society, 
Associate Professor of Political Science and Pre Law Advisor

Office:           M 233
E-mail:         pubertaccio@stonehill.edu 

Telephone: 508-565-1131

BIOGRAPHY
In addition to his role as Director of the Joseph W. Martin Institute For Law and Society, Peter Ubertaccio is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Pre Law Advisor. 

Ubertaccio's specialties are: the American Presidency, American political history, politics and law, and political parties. He teaches courses on Constitutional Law, American Political Thought, Executive Power, and Governance in the Modern Era. His courses, "Power, Politics, and Policymaking in Washington DC," and "Governance in the Modern Era," both involve travel to Washington and New York City for in-depth seminars with leaders of government, interest groups, academia, and the media.

Ubertaccio's article, "Wilson's Failure: Roots of Contention about the Meaning of a Science of Politics," (with Brian Cook) was published in the American Political Science Review in November 2006.

Peter recently sat on a roundtable to discuss the 2006 elections at the annual meeting of the British Association of American Studies in Leicester, England and also presented a paper, with Patrick O'Toole '07, on the network marketing of American political parties. This topic was also the subject of previous talks that he delivered to the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics and the Southwestern Social Science Association. 

Peter received his Ph.D. in Politics from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA and his B.A. in Politics from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.   He and his wife, Marcia, live on Cape Cod and have three children, Alexa (6), Julia, (5), and Jake (2).

For more information about Dr. Ubertaccio, please read this press release: 
May 27, 2007-- First Full-Time Director of Martin Institute Named