Background
Skowronek grew up in Bridgewater, New Jersey, where he graduated high school in 1969.
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Stephen Skowronek
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He attended Oberlin College, completing a Bachelor of Arts in 1973, and earned his Doctor of Philosophy in political science from Cornell University in 1979.
Career
His doctoral dissertation was revised and published as his first book, Building a New American State (1982). Skowronek taught at Cornell and University of California, Los Angeles before becoming a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1985. Skowronek joined the political science faculty of Yale University in 1986, and has been Pelatiah Perit Professor of political and social science at Yale since 1999.
He has also been a visiting professor at several American and European universities, including as Chair in American Civilization at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris in 1996-1997.
Skowronek has collaborated with Karen Orren on several projects, including founding the academic journal Studies in American Political Development in 1986, and writing the book The Search for American Political Development (2004). Through their work, Skowronek and Orren have significantly fostered the growth of American political development (or APD) as a distinct subfield within the discipline of political science.
Skowronek served as President of the Politics and History Section of APSA for 1994-1995.
