Andrew Rudalevige is the Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government at Bowdoin College. Prior to arriving at Bowdoin, he served as the Walter E. Beach ’56 Distinguished Chair in the political science department at Dickinson College. An author of several award-winning books, Rudalevige specializes in American political institutions, with an emphasis on the modern presidency, the executive branch, and interbranch relations. His most recent book, By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power, won the Richard E. Neustadt Prize from the American Political Science Association and the Louis Brownlow Prize from the National Academy of Public Administration. Rudalevige has also served as a staffer in the Massachusetts Senate, a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, a visiting professor at the University of East Anglia and at the Institut d'Etudes Politique, and an elected town councilor in his hometown of Watertown, Massachusetts. Rudalevige received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University.