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Gary C. Jacobson is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, where he has taught since 1979. He received his A.B. from Stanford in 1966 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1972. From 1970 to1979 he taught at Trinity College, Hartford. He has also taught at U.C. Riverside (1968), Yale (1973) and Stanford (1986-87). During 1990-91 he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Jacobson specializes in the study of U.S. elections, parties, interest groups, and Congress. He is the author of Money in Congressional Elections (1980), The Politics of Congressional Elections (5th ed., 2001), The Electoral Origins of Divided Government (1990), and coauthor of Strategy and Choice in Congressional Elections (2nd ed., 1983) and The Logic of American Politics (2000).

He has served on the Board of Overseers of National Elections Studies (1985-93), the Council of the American Political Science Association (1993-94), the APSA Committee on Research Support, and as Treasurer of the APSA (1996-97). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.