April 3, 2003
Third public affairs candidate named
The third candidate for dean of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs has been named. Paula Newberg, special adviser to the United Nations, will be on campus Tuesday and Wednesday, April 22 and 23 and will make a public presentation at 3:30 p.m. April 22 in 309 Parrington.
Newberg has focused her scholarly interests on human rights, development and democracy. She has published widely in academic, public policy and popular journals, and is a regular news columnist, commentator and lecturer in the United States and abroad. She was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and has taught at the post-graduate level at Columbia, Johns Hopkins and Rutgers universities.
Newberg specializes in the political economy of states encountering conflict and economic dislocation, and has worked for the past 25 years in a host of countries caught in the web of complex political change and crisis. Her work on behalf of multilateral and nongovernmental organizations has included the management of international public policy and the restructuring of humanitarian and development assistance. Newberg earned her undergraduate degree in philosophy and literature at Oberlin College, and her doctorate in politics at the University of Chicago.
She joins two other candidates previously announced. John Witte, director of the Robert M. LaFollette School of Public affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaks at 3:30 p.m. today in the Walker Ames Room, Kane, and Sandra Archibald, associate dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, will do her presentation at 3 p.m. Thursday, May 1, also in the Walker Ames Room (this is a change from the earlier announced time).
