Larry J. Sabato is the Director of UVA's Center for Politics and the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia.  The University of Virginia's Center for Politics, founded in 1998 by Professor Larry Sabato, hosted the 11th annual Virginia Political History Project open house at Montesano on the Grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA on June 6 and 7, 2008.