Donald Stokes
Donald Stokes was a faculty member at the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affiars in the field of political science. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1958 and was a professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 1958-74 where he was also the program director for the Institute for Social Research. He was the chairman of the Department of Political Science from 1970-1 and was made dean of the graduate school in 1971 lasting until 1974 when he left to go to the Woodrow Wilson School. Professor Stokes died in 1997.
Professor Stokes published a number of works including; Pasteur’s Quadrant, 1997; The American Voter, 1960; Elections and the Political Order, 1966;and Political Change in Britain, 1969.
Professor Stokes had been an associate member of Nullfield College, Oxford, Sr. Fulbright Scholar to Britain, Fellow for the Social Science Research Council, fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, visiting research fellow at the Royal Institute for International Affairs, fellow for the AAAS, National Academy for Public Administration, Brookings Institute, American Political Science Association, American Association of Public Opinion Research and the Council on Foreign Relations.