Robert C. Lieberman

Robert C. Lieberman
Born	(1964-09-26) September 26, 1964 Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Fields	American Politics Political Science
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University (current) Columbia University
Alma mater	Yale University Harvard University

Robert C. Lieberman (born September 26, 1964) is an American political scientist and the provost of the Johns Hopkins University.^[1] A scholar of American political development, Lieberman focuses primarily on race and politics and the American welfare state.

Biography

Robert Charles Lieberman was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1964. He received his B.A. degree from Yale University in 1986 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1994.^[2] From 1994 to 2013 he taught at Columbia University, where he served as chairman of the international and public affairs department from 2007 to 2012 and interim dean of the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) from 2012-2013.^[3] He was instrumental in recruiting leading faculty to SIPA, restructuring the curriculum, and convening an international conference on the future of global public policy education.^[4] In 2013, he was named the 14th provost of Johns Hopkins University, concurrently joining the faculty of the department of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences on July 1, 2013.^[1][5] In this role, Lieberman is responsible for "promoting and coordinating the university’s teaching and research mission" across the university's nine academic divisions.^[6] He also has oversight for research at a university that for thirty-five years has led the country in higher education research spending.^[7][8]

Research

Lieberman has written extensively on American political development, social welfare policy, issues of race and politics in America, institutional racism, and the welfare state.^[4][9] He has received support from the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, and the American Philosophical Society,^[2] and awards such as the American Political Science Association’s Leonard D. White Award,^[10] the Social Science History Association’s President’s Book Award,^[11] Harvard University Press’s Thomas J. Wilson Prize,^[12] and Columbia University’s Lionel Trilling Book Award.^[13]

Books

• 2001, Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State. Harvard University Press.
• 2005, Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective. Princeton University Press. Winner of the 2006 Best Book on Public Policy Award, Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
• 2009, Democratization in America: A Comparative-Historical Analysis. with Desmond King, Gretchen Ritter, and Laurence Whitehead, Johns Hopkins University Press.

Highly Cited Articles^[14]

• 1998, Ideas, institutions, and political order: Explaining political change, in: American Political Science Review. Vol. 96, nº 4, 697-712.
• 2000, with Greg M. Shaw, Looking inward, looking outward: The politics of state welfare innovation under devolution, in: Political Research Quarterly. Vol. 53, nº 2, 215-240.
• 2001, with John S. Lapinski, American federalism, race and the administration of welfare, in: British Journal of Political Science. Vol. 31, nº 2, 303-329.
• 2002, Weak state, strong policy: Paradoxes of race policy in the United States, Great Britain, and France, in: Studies in American Political Development. Vol. 16, nº 2, 138-161.
• 2009, with Desmond King, Ironies of state building: A comparative perspective on the american state, in: World Politics. Vol. 61, nº 3, 547-588.
• 2015, with Fredrick C. Harris, Racial Inequality After Racism: How Institutions Hold Back African Americans, in: Foreign Affairs. Vol 94, nº 2.

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