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Scott Barrett To Serve As Vice-Dean In 2010 – 2011
Scott Barrett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, will serve as SIPA’s Vice-Dean of Academic Affairs during the 2010 – 2011 academic year. Professor Barrett has agreed to serve while current Vice-Dean Robert Lieberman is on sabbatical. Upon his return in fall 2011, Professor Lieberman has agreed to serve another three-year term as Vice-Dean.
The Vice-Dean leads faculty recruitment and development at SIPA, which comprises more than 70 full-time faculty and more than 200 adjunct faculty, scholars, and practitioners. All have distinguished themselves in research and leadership in the policy world, and have produced scholarship in a wide variety of subjects, including international relations, democratization, elections, demography, and social policy.
“I am looking forward to working with Dean John Coatsworth to ensure that SIPA retains, recruits, and provides a stimulating research environment for the world’s best faculty in international and public affairs,” said Professor Barrett.
As Vice-Dean during the past three years, Professor Lieberman worked on the recruitment of a remarkable cohort of new faculty – both junior and senior – including Professor Barrett. The 2009 – 2010 year is especially noteworthy due to the large number of searches, reviews, promotion cases, and retention efforts managed by Professor Lieberman and Dan McIntyre, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
Professor Lieberman’s research focuses on American political development, race and politics, and social welfare policy and the welfare state. He will spend the year working on a book on the history and politics of affirmative action in the United States, supported by a Sabbatical Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society.
Since arriving at SIPA in fall of 2009, Professor Barrett has chaired and served on a wide variety of appointment, review and promotion committees. He previously taught at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he also directed the International Policy program. Before that, he was on the faculty of the London Business School. Professor Barrett’s research focuses on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to infectious diseases.
06/07/2010