Ralph Eric Criss
Personal
Dr. Eric Criss lives in the Atlanta metro area. He loves spending time with his family and watching his kids compete in youth and high school athletics. He has a passion for college football and aspires to someday publish a book about the sport.
Scholarly Interests
Eric is interested in government, politics, and public policy. More specifically, he has written about campaigns and elections, government regulation, and warfare. He earned a BA in political science from the University of Florida, MA in government from Johns Hopkins University, and PhD in United States History from Florida State University. While studying at Johns Hopkins, Eric penned a study entitled The Islamist-Communist Historical Analogy: Fact or Fiction? - an analysis asking whether policymakers could draw credible conclusions from a historical comparison between the two ideologies. He presented his paper at the Southern Political Science Association. Later, at Florida State University, Eric combined his interest in highly regulated industries, political campaigns and history to write his PhD dissertation, which ultimately became a book, The Boss of New Orleans: Martin Behrman and Machine Politics in the Crescent City.
Career
Dr. Eric Criss is an independent historian with more than thirty years of experience in public affairs, government regulation, and politics. He has published scholarly articles, opinion editorials, and blogs; presented at the Southern Political Science Association annual conference; taught advanced public policy at Florida State University; and recently published his first book, The Boss of New Orleans: Martin Behrman and Machine Politics in the Crescent City. Eric began his career working for U.S. Senators Don Nickles of Oklahoma and Phil Gramm of Texas at the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington, D.C. He later served as staff member or consultant to Fortune 500 corporations, trade associations, political parties, and presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial campaigns. Eric holds a BA in Political Science and the Classics from the University of Florida, an MA in Government from Johns Hopkins University, a PhD in History from Florida State University, and a JD from Faulkner University.