David Canon

Position title: Session Title: Holding and Election During a Pandemic

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Dr. David Canon is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a recipient of the 2008 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award and is co-editor of Legislative Studies Quarterly. He has authored three scholarly books, including the award-winning “Race, Redistricting, and Representation,”  and has published in numerous journal articles and book chapters including an introductory American government textbook (in its third edition). In the course of his 26 years as an educator, he has taught Introduction of American Politics to more than 10,000 students.