Steven Teles has taught or visited at Brandeis, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of London, BU, Holy Cross and Hamilton Colleges. He has just completed his second sole-authored book, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement (Princeton, 2008) and is also the author of Whose Welfare? Elite Politics and AFDC (Kansas, 1996). He has co-edited two major books, Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy (with Tariq Modood and Glenn Loury, Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Conservatism and American Political Development (with Brian Glenn). He is beginning work on a new book examining the role of political analysis in legal and policy design. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on Social Security in the US and UK, affirmative action, federalism, US-China policy and the logic of policy analysis. Mr. Teles holds a B.A. from George Washington University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.