Dr. Genovese holds the Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies, is a professor of political science and director of the Institute for Leadership Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He has received more than a dozen university and national teaching awards.

Genovese has written sixteen books on the presidency, including The Paradoxes of the American Presidency (co-authored by Thomas E. Cronin), Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2004; The Presidency and the Challenges of Democracy (co-edited with Lori Cox Han), Palgrave, 2006; The  Presidency and Domestic Policy (with William W. Lammers),CQ Press, 2000; The Power of the American Presidency:1789-2000, Oxford University Press, 2001; The Presidential Dilemma, Longman, 2nd ed., 2003; and The Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Facts on File, 2004 (winner of the New York Public Library “Best of Reference” work, 2004).

Genovese frequently appears as a political commentator on local and national television. He is associate editor of the journal, White House Studies, has lectured for the United States Embassy abroad and is editor of "The Evolving American Presidency," a Palgrave Macmillan Publishing’s book series. In 2004-05 he served as president of the Presidency Research Group of the American Political Science Association.

Genovese received his doctorate from the University of Southern California in 1979.

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