James F. and Maude B. Byrnes Professor of Government
Ann O'M. Bowman
Ph.D., University of Florida (1979)
Email: bowman-ann@sc.edu
Phone: 803-777-4518. FAX: 803-777-8255

Professor Bowman's primary research and teaching interests are:
State and Urban Politics and Administration
Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations
Public Policy: Environment, Economic Development, Land Use

Her recent publications include the seventh edition of State and Local Government (Houghton Mifflin, 2008, co-authored with Richard C. Kearney) and “Strength in Numbers: Why States Join Interstate Compacts” (co-authored with Neal D. Woods), which appeared in the Winter 2007 issue of State Politics and Policy Quarterly. The research that she and Michael Pagano conducted on urban vacant land led to the publication of Terra Incognita: Vacant Land and Urban Strategies (Georgetown University Press, 2004). Her work with George A. Krause on changing intergovernmental relations appears in American Politics Research and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. At the moment, she is studying in several topics including interstate relationships, the adoption of environmental policies, the institutionalization of governors’ offices, and local emergency management.

In 1986-87, Professor Bowman held the Lincoln Government Fellowship at the National League of Cities in Washington, D.C. From 1989 to 1995, she was co-editor of the Annual Review issue of Publius: The Journal of Federalism. She received a Fulbright award to serve as the Odense Distinguished Chair in American Studies in Denmark during 1995-96. She has served as president of two organized sections of the American Political Science Association: Public Policy (1997-98) and Urban Politics (2001-02). In 1998, she won the Donald C. Stone Award for Research, given by the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management of the American Society for Public Administration. From 2001 to 2004, she was Book Review Editor of the Journal of Politics. Currently, she serves on the editorial boards of Publius: The Journal of Federalism and State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Public Policy section.

Professor Bowman received her doctorate from the University of Florida. She taught at Texas A&M University for two years prior to arriving at USC in 1981. Her favorite song is Sweet Child o’ Mine.