Two
Endowed Chairs in Political Science
Dr.
Ian S. Lustick, professor of political
science, has been appointed to the Bess
Heyman Professorship.
After earning his B.A. at Brandeis University,
Dr. Lustick completed both his M.A. and
Ph.D. at the University of California,
Berkeley.
Dr. Lustick came to Penn in
1991 following 15 years on the Dartmouth faculty.
From 1997 to 2000, he served as chair of the
department of political science and was appointed
the Merriam Term Professor of Political Science in
2001. In addition to teaching Political Science
1, Introduction to the Study of Politics,
he also teaches courses on Middle Eastern politics,
techniques of hegemonic analysis, and the expansion
and contraction of states. Dr. Lustick
is also the associate director of the Solomon
Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict.
A specialist in areas of comparative
politics, international politics, organization
theory, and Middle Eastern politics, Dr. Lustick
is responsible for developing the computational
modeling platform known as PS-I. This software
program, which he created in collaboration with
Dr. Vladimir Dergachev, GEng'99, Gr'00, allows
social scientists to simulate political phenomena
in an effort to apply agent-based modeling to
public policy problems. His current work includes
research on rights of return in Zionism and Palestinian
nationalism as well as on problems of counterfactual
reasoning in historically grounded social science. His
research has been supported by grants from the
Carnegie Corporation, National Endowment for
the Humanities, National Science Foundation,
Social Science Research Council, and United States
Institute for Peace.
Dr. Lustick has published articles
in journals such as American Political Science
Review, Complexity, Foreign Affairs, Foreign
Policy, International Organization, and Journal
of International Law and Politics. The author
of five books and monographs, he received the American
Political Science Association's J. David Greenstone
Award for the Best Book in Politics and History
in 1995 for his Unsettled States, Disputed
Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria,
Israel and the West Bank-Gaza. In addition
to serving as a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, Dr. Lustick is the former president
of the Politics and History Section of the American
Political Science Association and of the Association
for Israel Studies.
The Bess Heyman Professorship
was created in 1989 by Stephen J. Heyman, W'59,
and is named for his late mother. Mr. Heyman
is a partner in Nadel and Gussman, a company
engaged in oil and gas exploration and production. A
former Penn Trustee, he has served as a member
of the SAS Board of Overseers and the Wharton
Graduate Executive Board. He is currently a member
of the School of Nursing Board of Overseers. In
2000, Mr. Heyman was recognized with Penn's Alumni
Award of Merit.
Dr. Brendan O'Leary, professor
of political
science and director of the Solomon
Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict,
has been appointed the Lauder Professor of Political
Science. Dr. O'Leary completed a B.A. in philosophy,
politics, and economics at Oxford University
before earning his Ph.D. from the London School
of Economics and Political Science, where he
received the Robert McKenzie Memorial Prize.
Before coming to Penn in 2002
as the Stanley I. Sheerr Endowed Term Professor
of Social Sciences, Dr. O'Leary had been a member
of the faculty at the London School of Economics
and Political Science since 1983. His service
there included his term as chairman of the Department
of Government, 1998-2001. In addition, Dr. O'Leary
has held visiting appointments at universities
around the world, including the University of
Uppsala in Sweden and the University of Western
Ontario.
Dr. O'Leary's research interests
span the topics of national and ethnic conflict
and conflict-regulation; power-sharing systems;
democracy and human rights; and the history,
political theory, and political science of the
state. A renowned expert on deeply divided territories,
he has been a leading public policy advisor and
consultant on the Irish peace process. His contributions
include providing congressional testimony on
the Patten Report, serving as a policy
advisor to the British Labour Party, and submitting
constitutional and policy memoranda to parties
and governments. Additionally, Dr. O'Leary
has been a constitutional consultant for the
European Union and the United Nations in Somalia,
as well as for the United Kingdom's Department
of International Development in Kwa-Zulu Natal,
South Africa. He is currently working on Kurdish
interests in the constitutional reconstruction
of Iraq.
Dr. O'Leary is the author or
co-author of seven books, including The Northern
Ireland: Consociational Engagements with
John McGarry, which will be published
in the coming year. In addition to publishing
80 journal articles and chapters, he is the co-editor
of six major collections, the most recent being Right-Sizing
the State: The Politics of Moving Borders.
Dr. O'Leary has been featured on major broadcasting
networks around the world and his commentary
has appeared in leading international publications,
such as The Financial Times and The
Guardian.
The Lauder Chair in Political
Science was established in 1983 by Leonard Lauder,
a 1954 graduate of the Wharton School. He is
the chairman and CEO of Estee Lauder Companies,
Inc., the international cosmetics firm founded
by his mother in 1946. Mr. Lauder has served
as a Penn Trustee and Overseer in SAS and the
Wharton School, and he received Penn's Alumni
Award of Merit in 1996. He is deeply committed
to encouraging interdisciplinary programs between
Wharton and SAS and in 1982 he established the
Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and
International Studies.
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