is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan and an Associate Director of the Scholars Program at the Michigan site.  He received both his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina.  Professor Hall is a former Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future and a former APSA Congressional Fellow.  His research on American national politics has focused on legislative behavior, political representation, interest groups, and campaign finance.  Professor Hall is author of Participation in Congress, winner of the APSA 1997 Richard Fenno Prize for the best book on legislative politics.  In 2000, he received an RWJF Investigator Award in Health Policy Research to explore the role and influence of interest groups in health policymaking. The first paper from that project, co-authored with Alan Deardorff, won the Jack L. Walker Award of the American Political Science Association.