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Rick Valelly is Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, where he has taught since Fall, 1993.
His current research focuses on the political development of LGBT rights in the U.S. from the Lavender Scare of the 1950s through the aftermath of DADT's repeal.