Eric Langenbacher is the Academic Director for the American Politics and Public Affairs program. Professor Langenbacher brings a wealth of enthusiasm, experience and expertise to the program. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and the Director of the Honors Program at Georgetown University. Dr. Langenbacher studied at Carleton University and the University of Toronto in Canada before starting graduate work in the Government Department and Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown in 1996. He was awarded a Fulbright grant in 1999-2000 and held the Ernst Reuter Fellowship at the Free University of Berlin in 1999-2000, the Hopper Memorial Fellowship at Georgetown in 2000-2001.

After finishing his PhD in 2002, he has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, and has also taught at George Washington University and the Universidad Nacional de General San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has presented papers at conferences worldwide, including the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, the German Studies Association Annual Meeting and the European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions. He has planned and run a variety of short programs about U.S. Government and Public Policy for partners from abroad including Argentina, China, Hong Kong, Germany, Austria, Spain, Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa.