Lee Sigelman (1945-2009)

It is with a personal sense of sorrow that I announce that Lee Sigelman died on December 22, 2009 at his home in suburban Washington, D.C. Lee was a prolific political scientist, a popular professor at George Washington University, and a personal friend. He authored or coauthored some 250 articles and eight books while also serving two terms as Editor of the American Political Science Review, the discipline's flagship journal for scholarly research. I was fortunate to have worked with Lee and his wife Carol (one of the foremost authorities in the field of developmental psychology and a dean of arts and sciences at GW) on a series of projects where our mutual and decidedly non-mainstream interests intersected back in the 1980s. Among his many innovations, the popular blog "The Monkey Cage" -- where his postings bear the unimitable Sigelman stamp of self-deprecating good humor mixed with incisive intelligence -- lives on, along with countless colleagues, students, and creative lines of scholarship that were deeply affected by his infectious inquisitiveness and fundamental decency. Needless to say, he will be sorely missed.