KSG Appoints Four Additional Senior Faculty

Three economists and one political scientist have been appointed to the senior faculty of the Kennedy School of Government, Dean Joseph Nye announced yesterday. The new appointments bring the total number of new faculty accepting tenured appointments at the school to 10.

Jane Mansbridge, currently the Jane W. Long Professor of the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, will join Dani Rodrik, professor of economics and international affairs at Columbia University, at the Kennedy School this fall. Economists Christina Romer and David Romer will join the Kennedy School faculty from the University of California at Berkeley in the fall of 1997.

"These talented colleagues complete an outstanding group of senior scholars who bring to the school significant new strength across several disciplines," said Nye. "We are quite fortunate that out of 11 tenure offers we made, 10 said yes and the 11th may still do so. Kennedy School faculty are well-positioned at the intersection of scholarship and policy to contribute in a tangible way to addressing some of society's most intractable problems."

Jane Mansbridge, professor of public policy, is interested in the normative structure and the practice of democracy. She is the author, along with many articles, of Beyond Adversary Democracy and Why We Lost the ERA. The latter was co-recipient of the American Political Science Association's Kammerer Prize for the best book in U.S. national policy and the Schuck Prize for the best book in women and politics. She has since edited Beyond Self-Interest, and Feminism (with Susan Moller Okin).

Her present work concerns the concepts of political equality and equal respect, and the motivations towards public spirit and self interest in political life. She has a B.A. from Wellesley College (1961), and a M.A. in history (1966) and a Ph.D. in government from Harvard.

Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and at several other research institutes. He is joint editor of the Journal of Policy Reform and holds editorial positions at a number of other economics journals. Rodrik has been the recipient of many fellowships and has also consulted for numerous international organizations.

Rodrik's research interests cover international economics, economic development, and political economy. He has published widely on issues related to trade policy and economic reform in developing and transitional economies. Among other works, he is the co-author of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the World Economy (1991) and co-editor of The Economics of Middle East Peace (1993). His most recent research is concerned with the consequences of international economic integration, East Asia's growth performance, and the political economy of policy reform. He holds an A.B. (1979) from Harvard College, and a M.P.A. (1981) and a Ph.D. (1985) from Princeton University. He previously taught at the Kennedy School from 1985 to 1992.

Christina Romer, professor of public policy, has studied business cycles of the 19th and 20th centuries, causes of the Great Depression, and the effects of monetary policy. Her current research includes the identification and dating of business cycles, the monetary transmission mechanism, and the source of economic recoveries. Romer has published widely and is co-editor (with David Romer) of the forthcoming book Reducing Inflation: Motivation and Strategy. Her recognitions for scholarship include the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator (1989-94) and its Faculty Award for Women Scientists and Engineers (1991-96).

Romer taught at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University before going to Berkeley, where she won the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1994. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic History and the Review of Economics and Statistics. She has a B.A. from the College of William and Mary (1981) and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. (1985).

Professor of public policy, David Romer's current interests include inflation, economic growth, monetary policy and labor economics. He has studied the microeconomic foundations of Keynesian economics, monetary economics and stock market volatility. Romer has taught at Princeton, Stanford, and M.I.T. In 1992 he was given the Advisor of the Year award at Berkeley, and has won several National Science Foundation grants.

Romer has published many articles and serves on the editorial boards of several economics journals. He is the co-editor of the book New Keynesian Economics and the forthcoming Reducing Inflation: Motivation and Strategy (with Christina Romer). He has an A.B. from Princeton University (1980) and a Ph.D. from M.I.T.

Also joining the senior faculty of the Kennedy School this fall will be sociologists William Julius Wilson of the University of Chicago and Christopher Jencks of Northwestern University, and anthropologist Katherine Newman of Columbia University. Labor economist George Borjas, previously with the University of California at San Diego, joined the Kennedy School in January 1996. Each will be affiliated with the School's Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.

Political scientist Thomas E. Patterson of Syracuse University and John P. Holdren, a scientist at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Woods Hole Research Center, also have accepted senior appointments at the Kennedy School this year.