Larry Sabato

    The Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, Dr. Sabato is at home both in the classroom and in the anchor booth. After graduating from the University of Virginia Phi Betta Kappa with a B.A. in government, he did a year's graduate study in public policy at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Upon receipt of the Rhodes scholarship in 1975, he left Princeton to begin study at Queen's College, Oxford University. In less than two years he received his doctorate in politics from Oxford and was invited to become an instructor for students in the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) program. Dr. Sabato has served on many national and state commissions, including the National Commission for the Renewal of American Democracy, the U.S. Senate Campaign Finance Reform Panel, Government Accountability, and the Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission on Higher Education. At the UVA Center for Politics (www.centerforpolitics.org), Dr. Sabato brings his years of academic study together with an equally long career as both a political practitioner and commentator on local, state and national elections. The Center represents Dr. Sabato’s mission: to improve civic education and the political process, and in doing so make government more relevant, more accessible and more meaningful for the average American. In six years, Sabato has raised over $7 million in public and private funds to support the Center's many programs, conferences, and publications.