Faculty Profile Podcast (no. 3): Kevin McMahon

Kevin McMahon, John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter Podcast Chapters: 00:00 - 6:20 - Introduction and Early Political Influences 6:20 - 12:25 - FDR, the Supreme Court, and Civil Rights 12:25 - 23:45 - Nixon's Court and Judicial Liberalism 23:45 - 32:00 - The Professor as Teacher-Scholar and Constitutional Law in the Classroom 32:00 - 39:20 - The Current Court, the Affordable Care Act, and Lecturing in the Courtroom 39:20 - 43:00 - Buffalo, Potsdam, and the influence of Upstate New York 43:00 - End - Teaching in Post-Soviet Russia, Gangsters and Disorder Kevin J. McMahon is the John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science. His research examines the presidency and the political origins and consequences of Supreme Court decisions. In 2014, the Supreme Court Historical Society awarded his book, Nixon's Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences (University of Chicago Press, 2011), its Erwin N. Griswold Prize. The Society only awards the Griswold Prize occasionally, and last did so in 2009. Nixon's Court was also selected as a 2012 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. Professor McMahon's first book, Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown (University of Chicago Press, 2004), won the American Political Science Association’s Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best book published that year on the American presidency. He is also the co-author/co-editor of three books on the presidency and presidential elections and author of numerous book chapters and journal articles.