Title: Professor Office: 303 North Hall Office Hours: https://kb.wisc.edu/polisci/page.php?id=28163 Phone: 608.263.2295 Has Voicemail: Yes E-Mail: dadowns@wisc.edu Keywords: Civic and Liberal Education, Civil Liberties, Criminal Law, Free Speech, Military, Psychology and the Law, Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), University Politics

Donald Downs is the Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science, Law, and Journalism at UW-Madison, and the Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University. His scholarship has dealt with a wide range of issues dealing with such issues as freedom of speech; academic freedom; American politics; political thought; political and legal movements; citizenship; campus politics; domestic violence, psychiatry, and the criminal law; and the relationship among the military, the university, and civic education.

Downs’ prize winning books include Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment; The New Politics of Pornography; More than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law; Cornell `69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University; Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus; and the recently published Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education on Non-Military Students (Cambridge University Press).

In addition to winning honors for his research, Downs has also won numerous teaching awards, including the University Teaching Award. He has been interviewed countless times by media and organizations around the world, and has been an active defender of academic freedom on campus (where he serves as the president of the Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights, an independent group) and in the nation.

Recent Publications

Current Courses taught for Spring 2012-2013