Valerie M. Hudson

Valerie M. Hudson (born 1958) is an American professor of political science at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University as of January 2012. Prior to coming to Texas A&M, Hudson was a professor of political science at Brigham Young University for 24 years. She is most noted for having co-authored the book Bare Branches about the negative effects of China's overabundance of males.

Hudson was born in Washington, D.C.. She joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often called Mormon by outsiders) in 1971. She had been a Roman Catholic. Hudson received her bachelor's degree from BYU and her master's and Ph.D. from Ohio State University.

While a doctoral candidate, Hudson taught for three years at Otterbein University, and after receiving her Ph.D., was a visiting professor at Northwestern University and then Rutgers University. In 1987 she joined the faculty of BYU. Hudson served as Associate Director of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies for eight years. In that capacity, she directed the graduate program.

Hudson is married to artist David Cassler, a painter with an MFA from BYU. They are the parents of eight children. David is also a landscape architect. They live in the Bryan-College Station metropolitan area.

Three of the Casslers' children have cystic fibrosis. Hudson has published a paper in which she argues that glutathione deficiencies associated with cystic fibrosis may be the cause of many of the chronic problems connected with it.

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