John Kincaid

John Kincaid is an American political scientist and scholar of American federalism, intergovernmental relations, and state and local government. He is the Robert B. & Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service and Director of the Meyner Center for the Study of State and Local Government at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He also is President of CSF Associates: Publius, the sponsor of the Center for the Study of Federalism. He previously taught at North Texas State University, Arizona State University, St. Peter’s College/University, and Seton Hall University. He served as executive director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and as vice president of the Pentagon Papers Fund for the Defense of Human and Civil Liberties. Education and career Born (1946) and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kincaid graduated from Central High School (221 class) in 1964, received a BA from Temple University in 1967, an MA from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, in 1968, and a Ph.D. from Temple University in 1981 where he studied under political scientists Daniel J. Elazar and Peter Bachrach. He attended Union Theological Seminary, New York City (1968–69) and also taught part-time at Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, before becoming instructor and inner-city liaison at St. Peter’s College/University, Jersey City, New Jersey (1969–70). He was director of the Phoenix Peace Center and coordinator for Professional and Business Men and Women for Peace, Phoenix, Arizona (1970–72), during which time he hosted Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden at Arizona State University where he was a faculty associate in sociology. He then served as vice-president and co-treasurer of the Pentagon Papers Fund for the Defense of Human and Civil Liberties, Los Angeles, California (1972–73), in which capacity he also managed the legal-defense office of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo. He wrote for the Guardian and American Report and edited an issue of WIN Magazine on the Pentagon Papers Trial (November 1, 1972).