Dr. Legge is the Associate Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs. He has been affiliated with the University of Georgia since 1980, and served as director of the School's highly ranked MPA program from 1981-2002. Dr. Legge teaches graduate courses in research methods and program evaluation in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, as well as an undergraduate course on the Holocaust and contemporary German Politics in the Department of International Affairs. His major research interest over the past several years has concerned politics in Germany with a special emphasis on the relationship between Germans, Jews, and other minorities.  Other research interests concern comparative public policies in the areas of population, privatization, and immigration. In addition, he has conducted research on the politics and sociology of American Jews and Judaism. As a writer and researcher, he has authored or coauthored over fifty articles for publication in scholarly journals. A frequent international traveler, Dr. Legge has taught and lectured in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Israel, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and the People's Republic of China.

Among Dr. Legge's books are:

Jews, Turks, and Other Strangers:  The Roots of Prejudice in Modern Germany (Madison :  University of Wisconsin Press, 2003).

Traffic Safety Reform in the United States and Great Britain (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies) (Pittsburgh:  University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991).

Abortion Policy:  An Evaluation of the Consequences of Maternal and Infant Health (Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1985).

Mailing Address:

School of Public & International Affairs, 206 Candler Hall, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602

Phone: 706/542-2941, Fax: 706/583-0095

Email: jlegge@uga.edu