James M. Glaser
Executive Vice President and Provost
Jim joined Santa Clara University in July 2024 after serving over 30 years as a faculty member and academic administrator at Tufts University. At SCU, Jim will oversee a broad portfolio including the College and all the schools, two centers of distinction, libraries, academic support programs, student life and wellness programs, global engagement, and enrollment management.
Jim received his B.A. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a noted scholar of electoral politics and American political behavior. He is the co-author (with Timothy J. Ryan) of Changing Minds, if Not Hearts: Political Remedies to Racial Issues (2013, University of Pennsylvania Press). His previous books, The Hand of the Past in Contemporary Southern Politics (2005, Yale University Press) and Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment in the South (1996, Yale University Press), each received the Southern Political Science Association’s V.O. Key Prize awarded to the year’s best book on Southern politics. Both books also were named as one of the year's “Outstanding Academic Titles” by Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries.