These links provide access to unpublished talks given by Professor Fenno over the course of his career that are housed in the Richard F. Fenno Papers at the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries Department of Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation (RBSCP).
“Representative Paul Tsongas: US Senate Race,” talk delivered in Massachusetts, 1978.
Legislative Research on the Road: The Problems of Access, paper written, 1980.
“Running for President: The Case of John Glenn,” talk delivered at State University of New York at Geneseo, New York – Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture, February 8, 1984.
“Presidential Race: The Case of John Glenn,” talk delivered at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, 1984.
“Specter-Quayle,” talk delivered at Indiana University Bloomington – Charles S. Hyneman Lecture, 1987.
“Mark Andrews, North Dakota,” talk delivered at the University of Rochester seminar, 1987.
“Down and out in Iowa: the John Glenn Campaign,” talk delivered at the Conference on the Iowa Caucuses, University of Iowa, 1988.
“The Senate through the Looking Glass: the Debate over Television,” talk delivered at the Hendricks Symposium on the U.S. Senate, University of Nebraska, 1988.
“Congressional Research, Ideas for the Next Generation,” luncheon talk delivered at the University of Oklahoma, 1988.
“The Changing Senate in the Canon Years,” talk delivered at the University of Nevada, 1988.
Four talks delivered to Chinese Delegations, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1988, 1989, May 1990, October 1990.
“Studying the United States Senate: Institutional Change and Individual Careers,” talk delivered at the meeting of the Japanese
Political Science Association in Tokyo, Japan, 1990.
“Adjusting to the Senate: the Problem of Governing,” talk delivered at Louisiana State University, 1991.
“Four Senators,” talk delivered at Davidson College, 1990.
“Campaigns and Career Paths,” talk delivered at Texas Tech University, 1991.
“Campaigning and Governing,” talk delivered at Arizona State University, 1991.
“Campaigning for the United States Senate,” talk, 1991.
Talk on the 1992 election delivered to Trustees at the University of Rochester, 1992.
“Some Thoughts on Renewing Congress,” talk delivered at the Brookings-AEI Conference, 1992.
“Remarks prepared for Princeton University Conference on the Media and Politics,” 1992.
“Men in Transition,” talk delivered at the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Greater Rochester, New York, 1994.
“Representational Durability: Two Senators,” talk delivered at Michigan State University, 1995.
“American Election,” talk delivered at State University of New York at Brockport, 1995.
“The American Elections of 1994: A Worm’s Eye View,” talk delivered at Oxford University, 1995.
“The House in the 104th Congress: An Institutional View,” talk delivered at Louisiana State University – Edward Douglas White Lectures on Citizenship, 1997.
“Learning to Govern: An Institutional View of the 104th Congress,” talk delivered at the University of Iowa, 1998.
“Concluding remarks,” talk delivered at a Florida International University conference, 1997.
“Assessing the Republican Congress,” talk delivered at Case Western Reserve University, 1998.
“Looking for the Senate: Reminiscences and Residuals,” talk delivered at the Norman Thomas Conference on Senate Exceptionalism at Vanderbilt University, 1999.
“Assessing the Republican Congress: Problem of Governing,” talk delivered at the University of Arkansas, 1999.
“Chasing Politicians,” talk delivered at the University of Rochester, 1999.
“Doing Political Science: Reflections on a Research Program,” talk delivered at Dartmouth College, 1999.
“Doing Political Science Reflections on a Research Program,” talk delivered at Emory University, 2000.
“Remarks, Roundtable on Black and Black, ‘The Rise of the Southern Republicans’,” talk delivered at the Southern Political Science Association conference, 2002.
“Mostly Professional,” talk delivered at University of Wisconsin, 2004.
“Our Politicians: What are they really like?” talk delivered at Purdue, 2005.
“Politicians, Journalists and Authenticity,” talk delivered at the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, 2006.
Graduation talk delivered at the University of Rochester, 2006. (Also see an adapted version of this talk entitled “The Idea of Citizenship” published in the Rochester Review in the fall of 2006.)
Congressman and Constituency: Richard Bolling of Missiouri, unpublished manuscript, 2014.
