THEODORE J. Lowi

I was first exposed to Ted Lowi as an undergraduate at Oberlin in the 1970s, where The End of Liberalism was the first required reading...

My favorite Ted Lowi story is when Pat Moynihan, fresh off several prestigious White House appointments, Harvard, and the UN...

[I] had Professor Lowi for a public policy course and then interacted with him as independent study adviser for a paper on Native...

I met Ted Lowi in my senior year at Cornell (1960-61). At the time, he was an Instructor, at the beginning of his distinguished academic...

My first memory of [Professor Lowi] is from Government 111, which was the Intro to American Politics class. This would have been Fall of...

From behind his podium, with lecture notes he always revised before class, [Ted] would preach his gospel to believers and non-believers...

In 1960 or early 1961, I was standing [in] a crowded corridor outside my advisor’s door, opposite the office of a young Professor Lowi...

I had the privilege of being in Professor Lowi’s first class when he returned to Cornell [from University of Chicago]. It was the first...

I was a student of Ted’s during the disco era (that would be the late 1970s). Apropos to the times, one imagined his closet bar groaning...

I took Ted’s intro to American Government course as a freshman. It was the fall of 1976 and a presidential election campaign was...

Interested in becoming an urban planner, I applied to some colleges as a political science major and some as an engineering major. At...

I was a Government major at Cornell in the late 1980s, and I took one class with Professor Lowi. It was a small class for upperclassmen,...

Ted Lowi was the first government professor I ever met. When I arrived at Cornell in September 1960, I attended a talk he gave to...

It was Professor Lowi’s introductory class that helped solidify my choice of the American Government major with a concentration in...

I was at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School from 1978 to 1990 and got together with Ted about once or twice a year, generally in...

I was a Geology major in Arts and Sciences when I had the privilege to take a freshman government class with Professor Lowi. He had just...

My relationship with Ted Lowi spans almost half a century. I babysat for Angèle and Ted’s darling children when I was a college student...