Tammy M. Frisby is Executive Director and Director of Research of Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West.  She also holds appointments as a Lecturer in the Stanford Political Science Department and in the university’s Public Policy Program. 

Frisby earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University’s Department of Government.  She studies Congress, state politics, and regulatory policymaking.  Her current work includes research on the role of scientific knowledge and uncertainty in environmental regulation.  She arrived at Stanford in the autumn of 2006 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Bill Lane Center for the American West.  Her qualifications for her appointment at the Bill Lane Center include being a fourth generation Montanan and the year she spent as a ski bum in Utah. 

During the 2008-09 academic year, Frisby will teach Political Science 2: Introduction to American National Government and Politics, with Morris Fiorina.

PS 2: Introduction to American National Government and Politics syllabus - click here for download: PS 2 2007-2008 syllabus.doc