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Three
SAS Endowed Chairs
Dean
Samuel H. Preston has announced that three newly appointed faculty
members in the Department of Political Science have been named to
endowed chairs in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Dr.
Joanne Gowa | Dr. Edward Mansfield | Dr.
Rogers Smith | TOP
Dr. Joanne Gowa has been appointed to the Walter H. Annenberg Chair
in the Social Sciences. Dr. Gowa holds a B.A. from Tufts University
and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she was formerly the
William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War.
She had previously taught political science at Penn, before joining
the faculty at Princeton in 1990. Her research and teaching interests
include international security and international political economy.
Her current research analyzes the relationship between crisis bargaining
and the regime type of states. She is the author of three books
and numerous articles on political economy, trade and monetary policy,
and democracy and disputes. She is a member of the editorial committee
of World Politics and the editorial board of International
Organization. Dr. Gowa is a vice-president of the International
Studies Association and has been a member of the council of the
American Political Science Association. She has been the recipient
of a National Science Foundation grant, a MacArthur Foundation grant,
and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. She is a member of the Board
of Trustees of Tufts University.
The Walter
H. Annenberg Professorship in the Social Sciences was created by
the Honorable Walter and the Honorable Leonore Annenberg. The Annenbergs,
who are both emeritus trustees, are lifelong supporters of Penn
and patrons of education across the United States. They have endowed
many chairs in SAS and made countless contributions to Penn, including
the founding of the Annenberg School for Communication in 1958.
Dr.
Joanne Gowa | Dr. Edward Mansfield | Dr.
Rogers Smith | TOP
Dr.
Edward Mansfield has been appointed to the Hum Rosen Professorship.
Dr. Mansfield recently returned to the Department of Political Science
from Ohio State University, where he had taught since 1996. Prior
to that he was a faculty member at Columbia University. A Penn alumnus,
he took his B.A. in history in 1984 and Ph.D. in 1989 in political
science. He had been a visiting lecturer here in 1992-93. His research
focuses on international relations, with a particular emphasis on
the causes of interstate conflict and the political economy of international
trade. He has published extensively on these topics and has served
on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including the American
Political Science Review, International Organization,
and World Politics. He received the Karl W. Deutsch Award
in International Relations and Peace Research from the International
Studies Association in 2000. Dr. Mansfield has been a national fellow
at the Hoover Institution, a term member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, and program co-chair for the 2001 annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association.
The Hum Rosen
Professorship was established by Mr. George Weiss, W '65, and
Ms. Diane Weiss in 1989. They named it in honor of one of Penn's
most dedicated friends, Herman Rosen, W '36, for his service
and loyalty to the University. The late Mr. Rosen served as the
chairman of the Secondary School Committee for the Greater Hartford
Alumni Club for more than 25 years and was a recipient of the Alumni
Award of Merit in 1977.
Dr.
Joanne Gowa | Dr. Edward Mansfield | Dr.
Rogers Smith | TOP
Dr.
Rogers Smith has been appointed to the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished
Professorship. Dr. Smith came to Penn from Yale, where he served
as the Alfred Cowles Professor of Government and co-director of
the Center for the Study of Race, Inequality, and Politics. He began
teaching at Yale in 1980 and has received the Yale College Prize
for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He received a B.A. from
Michigan State University in 1975 and a Ph.D. in political science
from Harvard in 1980. His research interests include constitutional
law, American political thought, and modern legal and political
theory with special interest in questions of citizenship, race,
ethnicity, and gender. Dr. Smith has served on the editorial boards
of several publications and is the author or co-author of more than
50 articles and four books, many of which have won awards. He has
received Rockefeller and American Council of Learned Societies fellowships
and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1998.
This chair is one of five Browne Distinguished Professorships established
last year (Almanac
February
1, 2000) by Christopher H. Browne, C '69, a Penn trustee and
chair of the Board of Overseers of SAS.
Dr.
Joanne Gowa | Dr. Edward Mansfield | Dr.
Rogers Smith | TOP
Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 10, October 30, 2001
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