William D. Pederson

William D. Pederson, Ph.D., is a political science professor at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. He founded the university’s International Lincoln Center with an emphasis on Lincoln’s legacy abroad. He also began the first independent Washington Semester, a program designed to help students get internships in D.C., the first presidential conference series at the university, the Constitutional Democracy lecture series and Abraham Lincoln lecture series. He has written or edited more than 30 books. His research deals with presidential leadership and political revolts. He is the executive director of the Association of Global South Studies and is the recipient of numerous local, state, national and international teaching, research and service awards. He briefly worked at the U.S. Department of State and the National Institutes of Health before accepting a university faculty position.