Peter W. Schramm Executive Director, John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science, Ashland University Ashland, Ohio

Peter W. Schramm is the executive director of the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs and a professor of Political Science at Ashland University. Prior to his work at Ashland, he served in the Reagan Administration as the director of the Center for International Education in the United States Department of Education. Before entering government service, Dr. Schramm was the president of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, in Claremont, California. Dr. Schramm earned his doctorate in government from the Claremont Graduate School in 1980. He holds two graduate degrees, one from Claremont in Government and the other in International History from The London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.

Dr. Schramm has edited, co-edited, and contributed to a number of books, including, Natural Right and Political Right, The 1984 Election and the Future of American Politics, Lessons of the Bush Defeat, American Political Parties and Constitutional Politics, Consequences of the Clinton Victory, Separation of Powers and Good Government, Statecraft and Power, History of American Political Thought, The Heritage Guide to the Constitution and wrote the Introduction to Lord Charnwood’s Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (Madison Books, 1996). Dr. Schramm was born in Hungary in 1946. He and his family left Hungary in late 1956 after the Communist revolution and made their way to America.