Professor Foreman's writings address the politics of domestic policy, especially regarding health, safety, and the environment. He edited The African American Predicament published by Brookings in 1999. The previous year Brookings published The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice. His Public Health Hazards and National Policymaking (Brookings, 1994). Professor Foreman earlier wrote Signals from the Hill: Congressional Oversight and the Challenge of Social Regulation (Yale University Press, 1988) which was awards the 1990 D.B. Hardeman Prize by the Lyndon B. Johnson Library at the University of Texas as the best book about Congress published during 1987-88.
Mr. Foreman has served as chair of the editorial advisory board for the journal PS: Political Science and Politics and as chair of the American Political Science Association's Committee on the Status of African Americans in the Profession.
From September 1999 to April 2005, Mr. Foreman served on the board of governors of The Nature Conservancy, one of the nation's largest environmental organizations. He remains affiliated with the Brookings Institution as a non-resident fellow.
Mr. Foreman attended Harvard University where he earned the A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Government in 1974, 1977, and 1980, respectively.
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