Michael Preston currently serves as vice provost for strategic initiatives. In this role, he assists the provost in a range of areas, including strategic initiatives and diversity. Preston is also a professor of Political Science in the USC College. From 1989 to 1995, he served as chair of the Department of Political Science and, from 1995 to 1998, as director of the Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies. He is a specialist in American Politics, Urban Politics, Black Politics, and Racial and Ethnic Politics, and has received outstanding teaching awards from the Mortar Board and the Department of Black Students. Preston was also honored with the 2004 Frank J. Goodnow Award for his significant contributions to the political science profession and the American Political Science Association. This is the most prestigious award in the discipline. He also received the 2003 Career Achievement Award from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. He is past president of the Western Political Science Association, past president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, and has served as vice-president of the American Political Science Association.
Preston joined the USC faculty in 1986, having spent thirteen years at the University of Illinois-Urbana. He is the author of Racial and Ethnic Politics in California (first and second editions, 1991 and 1998), The New Black Politics (first and second editions, 1981 and 1987), The Politics of Bureaucratic Reform: The Case of the California State Employment Service (1984), and co-editor of Race, Sex and Policy Problems (1979). He was former associate editor of the National Political Science Review and Urban Affairs Quarterly, as well as a reviewer for numerous professional journals and the National Science Foundation. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
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