Columbia Lands Three New Black Political Science Professors

There are or will be 10 new faculty members joining the political science department at Columbia University this academic year. Three of the new faculty members are black:

• Fredrick C. Harris will be coming to Columbia in January for the spring semester as a full professor. He will also direct a new research center on African-American Politics and Society. He is currently a professor of political science at the University of Rochester and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University.

• Kimuli Kasara is joining the department as an assistant professor. She recently earned her Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. Her dissertation was on ethnic politics in Africa and the African political economy.

• Dorian T. Warren is also a new assistant professor at Columbia. After earning his Ph.D. from Yale in 2005, Warren was a postdoctoral scholar at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He will hold a joint appointment with Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.

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