DOCSLIB.ORG

Rebecca Blank's CV

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Rebecca Blank's CV CURRICULUM VITAE July 2021 REBECCA M. BLANK OFFICE: Chancellor’s office, 165 Bascom Hall 500 Lincoln Drive University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-8967 EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.S. in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, University of Minnesota EMPLOYMENT AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: University of Wisconsin, July 2013-present Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Responsible for setting direction and strategy, leading decision-making, and serving as the most visible spokesperson for a top-rated public university. UW serves 46,000 students with 22,000 faculty and staff, and has a mission of education, research and outreach. U.S. Department of Commerce, June 2009-June 2013 Acting Secretary of Commerce (August 2011-October 2011; June 2012-June 2013) Leadership position with final decision-making authority within the Department and extensive speaking and outreach responsibilities as the public face of the Department. Deputy Secretary of Commerce (March 2012-June 2013) and Acting Deputy Secretary (November 2010-March 2012) Number two position in the Department, serving as Chief Operating Officer responsible for department-wide management, budgets, and organizational strategy, as well as ongoing policy direction in a $10 billion agency. Under Secretary for Economic Affairs (June 2009-March 2012) Responsible for oversight of the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Economics and Statistics Administration. Board Representative to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation. Brookings Institution, July 2008-June 2009 Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Robert S. Kerr Visiting Fellow, Economic Studies (2007-08) University of Michigan, August 1999-June 2008 Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, 1999-2007 Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Professor of Economics, Department of Economics Co-Director, National Poverty Center, 2002-2008 1 Council of Economic Advisers, Washington, D.C. October 1997-July 1999 Member-nominee, October 1997- October 1998; Member, October 1998-July 1999 Northwestern University, September 1989-July 1999 Director, Joint Center for Poverty Research, 1995-97 Professor of Economics, 1994-1999; Associate Professor of Economics, 1989-94 Research Faculty, Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research. 1989-99 Associate Professor, School of Education and Social Policy. 1989-93. Co-Director, Northwestern/University of Chicago Interdisciplinary Training Program in Poverty, Race, and Underclass Issues. 1991-96. Council of Economic Advisers, Washington, D.C. August 1989 - July 1990 Senior Staff Economist working in the White House. Princeton University, September 1983 - August 1989 Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1988 - May 1989 Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 1985 Visiting Fellow, Department of Economics and Institute for Research on Poverty HONORS: Distinguished Fellow, American Economics Association. To be awarded in January 2021. Exemplar Award, Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2015. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2015. Honorary doctorate, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. April 2014 Honorary doctorate in Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2012. German American Business Council Leadership Award, Washington, DC. April 2013 Eleanor Roosevelt Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2010. Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award, University of Minnesota, 2008. Winter Commencement speaker, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, December 2008. Fellow, American Academy of Arts of Sciences, 2005. Fellow, Society of Labor Economists, 2006. Lifetime National Associate, National Academies of Sciences, 2004. Elected member, National Academy of Social Insurance 2 Selected Named Lectures: Distinguished Leaders in Higher Education Lecture, University of Missouri, February 2020 Patterson Lecture, Ohio State University, April 2019 Paul Offner Lecture, Urban Institute, November 2018 Allan Starling Johnson, Jr Distinguished Lecture in Economics, Duke University, March 2016 Jonathan Edwards Lecture, Andover Newton Seminary, March 2011. James P. Houck Lecture, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota. May 2010. President’s Speaker, American Statistical Association, July 2009 Distinguished Public Policy Lecture, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, April 2009 Aaron Wildavsky Lecture, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC-Berkeley, March 2009. Sulzberger Lecture, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, September 2008. McMylar Lecture, Department of Economics, Case Western Reserve University, April 2007. American Enterprise Lecture, Furman University, March 2007. Alice Cook Lecture, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, October 2006. Kurt W. Rothschild Lecture. Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. November 2005. Bazzani Lecture, Institute for Government & Public Affairs, University of Illinois. October 2004. Monroe-Paine Lecture, Truman School, University of Missouri. March 2003. Wellington-Burnham Lecture, Department of Economics, Tufts University. October 2002. Merrick Lecture, Department of Economics, University of Virginia. April 2002. Adam Smith Lecture, European Association of Labour Economists. September 2001. J. Douglas Gibson Lecture, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, Canada. March 2000. Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government, Society of Government Economists. January 2000. Frank Paish Lecture, Royal Economic Society. April 1999. 1997 Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations. 1993 David Kershaw prize winner. Awarded biannually by the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management to the young scholar (under age 40) whose research has had the most impact on the public policy process. 1985 Junior Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Economics, Princeton University. Phi Beta Kappa. BOARD APPOINTMENTS: NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association). Board of Governors, 2020-present, Division I Board of Directors, 2020-present. TIAA. Board of Governors, 2018-present, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). Board of Directors, 2019-present; incoming President in November 2021. American Association of Universities. Board of Directors, 2018-2020. 3 ITHAKA. Board of Trustees, 2013-present. MRDC (formerly Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.) Board of Directors, 2019-present; 1993- 97; 2000-09. Big 10 Conference. Council of Presidents/Chancellors, 2013-present. President of Board, 2021-present. Internet 2. Board of Trustees, 2014-2019. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). Board of Trustees, 2013-present. University Research Park, Madison, WI. Board of Trustees (Chair), 2013-present. UW Hospitals and Clinics, Madison, WI. Authority Board, 2013-present. Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce. Board of Directors, 2013-present. Madison Regional Economic Partnership (MadREP). Board of Directors, 2013-present. Urban Institute. Board of Trustees, 2007-09. Economic Policy Institute. Board of Directors, 2008-09. Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. Board of Directors, 1994-97. PUBLICATIONS -- Books: Changing Inequality. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2011. Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit and Banking Among Low-Income Households (with Michael S. Barr). New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2009. (Co-editor with Barr and co-author on one article in the volume.) Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes are Affecting Low Wage Workers (with Sheldon Danziger and Robert Schoeni). New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2006. (Co-editor with Danziger and Schoeni and co-author on two articles in the volume.) Measuring Racial Discrimination (with Marilyn Dabady and Connie Citro). Washington, D.C.: National Research Council, National Academy Press. 2004. Is the Market Moral? A Dialogue on Religion, Economics, and Justice (with William McGurn). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. 2004. The New World of Welfare (with Ron Haskins). Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. 2001. (Co-editor with Haskins and co-author of two articles in the volume.) Finding Jobs: Work and Welfare Reform (with David Card). New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2000. (Co-editor with Card and co-author of two articles in the volume.) 4 It Takes A Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1997. Social Protection vs. Economic Flexibility: Is There a Tradeoff? Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1994. (Editor and author of two articles in the volume.) Do Justice: Linking Christian Faith and Modern Economic Life. Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press. 1992. PUBLICATIONS -- Journal Articles and Book Chapters: “Managing Change in Change-Resistant Universities.” In The Future of the University in a Polarizing World. Luc E. Weber and Howard Newby, eds. Glion Colloquium Series No. 11. Geneva: Glion Colloquium. 2018. “Why Public Universities Need Greater Autonomy.” In Leading Colleges and Universities: Lessons from Higher Education Leaders. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, and E. Gordon Gee, eds. Baltimore:
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Essays on Time Allocation
    Tesi Doctoral Essays on Time Allocation A thesis presented by Jorge González Chapela to Departament d’Economia i Empresa Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona May 2004 “It is merely human nature that we overrate the importance of our own types of research and underrate the importance of the types that appeal to others. Perhaps it is not too much to say that we should never do what we are doing, both in science and in other pursuits of life, if we did not do this.” Joseph A. Schumpeter ii Acknowledgments First of all, I want to thank Xavier Sala i Martín. Not only his support and infinite patience when progress was stagnant were essential to the comple- tion of this thesis, but also because he showed me that the way to become a rigorous scientist is paved with intellectual curiosity, clear mind, and hard work. M’esforçare per estar a la alçada del teu magisteri, Xavier. I owe a lot (a lot!) to Ernesto Villanueva. His guidance, patience, encouragement, and friendship have been fundamental to arrive here. Gracias, Ernesto. Throughout the Ph.D., Antonio Ciccone, Jaume García, and Ángel López have deeply contributed to develop my skills as an economist with their brilliant lectures, fruitful discussions, and appealing challenges. A los tres, ¡gracias! In some way or another, may other people have intellectually shaped this thesis—my teachers at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, my class mates,... To all of them, my gratitude. Ademais de débedas intelectuais, unha tese leva consigo unha morea de renuncias. Pra chegar eiquí, tiven de renuncia-la compaña dos meus pais e irmán—vós sóde-lo todo pra min—, dos meus bos amigos—¡cantas cousas puidemos ter feito xuntos!—, e de moitas outras persoas—vivas ou xa mortas— que me aledan a vida.
    [Show full text]
  • OVERVIEW of ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR): a Handbook for Corps Managers
    Pamphlet #5 ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE US Army Corps RESOLUTION SERIES of Engineers® OVERVIEW OF ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR): A Handbook for Corps Managers ..ON a,'Jl'!'DIENT I A;;proved tm ;uclic reieo.NI ~- I>----• JULY 1996 IWR PAMPHLET 96-ADR-P-5 19970103 016 The Corps Commitment to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) This pamphlet is one in a series of pamphlets describing techniques for Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). This series is part ofa Corps program to encourage its managers to develop and utilize new ways ofresolving disputes. ADR techniques may be used to prevent disputes, resolve them at earlier stages, or settle them prior to formal litigation. ADR is a new field, and additional techniques are being developed all the time. These pamphlets are a means ofproviding Corps managers with up-to-date information on the latest techniques. The information in this pamphlet is designed to provide a starting point for innovation by Corps managers in the use ofADR techniques. Other ADR case studies and working papers are available to assist managers. The current list ofpamphlets, case studies, and working papers in the ADR series is listed in the back ofthis pamphlet. The ADR Program is carried out under the proponency ofthe U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers, Office ofChief Counsel, Lester Edelman, ChiefCounsel, and with the guidance ofthe U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers' Institute for Water Resources (!WR), Alexandria VA. Frank Carr serves as ADR Program Manager. Jerome Delli Priscoli, Ph.D., Senior Policy Analyst of!WR currently serves as Technical Monitor, assisted by Donna Ayres, ADR Program Coordinator. James L.
    [Show full text]
  • C:\Working Papers\11693.Wpd
    NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WORK HOURS, WAGES, AND VACATION LEAVE Joseph G. Altonji Emiko Usui Working Paper 11693 http://www.nber.org/papers/w11693 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 October 2005 This research was supported by the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, the Economic Growth Center, Yale University, and the National Science Foundation under grants SES- 0112533 and SES- 0301142. We thank Derek Neal, Christopher Taber and participants in seminars at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, LSE, the Midwest Economic Association Meetings, NBER, Northwestern, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the Upjohn Institute for helpful comments. The usual disclaimer applies. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ©2005 by Joseph G. Altonji and Emiko Usui. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. Work Hours, Wages, and Vacation Leave Joseph G. Altonji and Emiko Usui NBER Working Paper No. 11693 October 2005 JEL No. J2 ABSTRACT Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Health and Retirement Study, we provide a set of facts about vacation leave and its relationship to hours worked, hours constraints, wage rates, worker characteristics, spouse's vacation leave, labor market experience, job tenure, occupation, industry, and labor market conditions. We show that on average vacation time taken rises 1 to 1 with paid vacation but varies around it, that annual hours worked fall by about 1 full time week with every week of paid vacation, that the gap between time taken and time paid for is higher for women, union members, and government workers, that hourly wage rates have a strong positive relationship with paid vacation weeks both in the cross section and across jobs, and that nonwage compensation is positively related to vacation weeks.
    [Show full text]
  • Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers’ Voting on Women’S Issues Ebonya Washington Yale University and NBER May 2007
    Female Socialization: How Daughters Affect Their Legislator Fathers’ Voting on Women’s Issues Ebonya Washington Yale University and NBER May 2007 Parenting daughters, sociologists have shown, increases feminist sympathies. I test the hypothesis that children, much like neighbors or peers, can influence parental behavior. I demonstrate that conditional on total number of children, each daughter increases a congress person’s propensity to vote liberally, particularly on reproductive rights issues. The results identify an important (and previously omitted) explanatory variable in the literature on congressional decision making. Additionally the paper highlights the relevance of child to parent behavioral influence. I thank Joseph Altonji, Timothy Guinnane, Carolyn Moehling Rohini Pande and Antoinette Schoar for helpful discussions as well as seminar participants at Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics: Psychology and Economics 5.0 and Yale for their comments. I thank Samantha Green-Atchley for excellent research assistance. Email address: [email protected]. I Introduction By the early eighties, after nearly two terms in Congress, Senator Pete W. Domenici (R- NM) had made a name for himself. “He was a gray, pragmatic fiscal and social conservative who opposed abortion, gun control and same-sex marriage and supported school vouchers, tax cuts and mandatory three-strikes sentencing. He was no bleeding heart, no cause pleader.” 1 That is until the withdrawn, indecisive and confused behavior of his daughter Clare was diagnosed as atypical schizophrenia. Now Domenici is Congress’ leading advocate for health insurance parity for mental illness. He is not alone. Domenici built a multiparty coalition that has included five legislators, all of whose lives have been touched by mental illness.
    [Show full text]
  • Tufts Fact Book 2013-14
    Tufts University Fact Book 2013 2014 FACT BOOK 2013-2014 Tufts University Fact Book 2013 2014 Published by the Office of Institutional Research & Evaluation, Tufts University © 2014 Trustees of Tufts College Tufts University Fact Book 2013 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................... 3 Preface...................................................................................................................................................... 1 University Vision Statement ...................................................................................................................... 2 HISTORY ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 Selected Highlights of 2013 ...................................................................................................................... 5 Aspects of Tufts University History ........................................................................................................... 8 Presidents ............................................................................................................................................... 19 ORGANIZATION ........................................................................................................................................ 21 Trustees .................................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • 2019 Mincer Award
    David Card is the recipient of the 2019 Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Labor Economics. Card is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for Labor Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. David has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Frisch Medal from the Econometric Society, the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, and the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award. He has served as co-editor of the Journal of Labor Economics, the American Economic Review, and Econometrica. David has also served as President of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Western Economics Association. David grew up on a farm near Guelph, Ontario, and he attended a one-room school as a child. He was an undergraduate at Queens University and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton. After one year on the faculty at the University of Chicago, David returned to Princeton in 1983, where he remained until 1997 when he moved to Berkeley. David’s time at Princeton was marked by, among other things, very fruitful collaborations with Orley Ashenfelter and Alan Krueger. It was at Princeton that David first exhibited his life-long devotion to training graduate students. Many of David’s students, both from Princeton and Berkeley, are now leading economists in labor economics and related fields. David is an obvious choice for the Mincer Award. It is hard to think of a labor economist who entered the profession in the last 40 years with broader reach and influence than David Card.
    [Show full text]
  • Saving the American Dream? Education Policies in Spatial General Equilibrium
    INSTITUTE WORKING PAPER No. 47 Saving the American Dream? Education Policies in Spatial General Equilibrium March 2021 Fabian Eckert University of California, San Diego Tatjana Kleineberg World Bank DOI: https://doi.org/10.21034/iwp.47 Keywords: Intergenerational mobility; Equality of opportunity; School access; Education reform; Regional labor markets; Economic geography; Spatial economics JEL classification: E24, E62, R12, R23, R75, I24, I28 The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis or the Federal Reserve System. Saving the American Dream? Education Policies in Spatial General Equilibrium∗ Fabian Eckerty Tatjana Kleineberg z First Version: November 2017 This Version: March 2021 Abstract Children’s education and economic opportunities differ substantially across US neigh- borhoods. This paper develops and estimates a spatial equilibrium model that links children’s education outcomes to their childhood location. Two endogenous factors determine education choices in each location: local education quality and local labor market access. We estimate the model with US county-level data and study the ef- fects of a school funding equalization on education outcomes and social mobility. The reform’s direct effects improve education outcomes among children from low-skill families. However, the effects are weaker in spatial general equilibrium because aver- age returns to education decline and residential and educational choices of low-skill families shift them toward
    [Show full text]
  • Economics 250A Course Outline and Reading List
    Economics 250a Course Outline and Reading List This is the first course in the graduate labor economics sequence, and will focus on labor supply, labor demand, and simple search models. The emphasis of the course is on linking basic theoretical insights with empirical patterns in the labor market, using a combination of methodologies. Students are expected to have completed first year micro, marco, and econometrics courses. There will be a number of problem sets throughout the term, which all students must hand in (though working in groups is strongly encouraged). Students are expected to have familiarity with programs like Stata and Matlab. I will be adjusting the content of the course and adding some additional readings. I will also hand out my lecture notes. I recommend reading the starred paper(s) in each section before the lecture, and as many of the other papers as possible. Lecture 1: Review of basic consumer theory; functional form, aggregation, discrete choice Mas-Colell, Whintoe and Green, chapters 3 and 4. Angus Deaton and John Muellbauer, Economics and Consumer Behavior, Cambridge Press, 1980 Geoffrey Jehle and Philip Reny, Advanced Microeconomic Theory (2nd ed), Addision Wes- ley, 2001 John Chipman, "Aggregation and Estimation in the Theory of Demand" History of Po- litical Economy 38 (annual supplement), pp. 106-125. Kenneth Train. Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation, Cambridge Press 2003. Kenneth A. Small and Harvey A. Rosen "Applied Welfare Economics with Discrete Choice Models." Econometrica, 49 (January 1981), pp. 105-130. Lectures 2-4: Static Labor Supply **You should review the Handbook of Labor Economics chapters by Pencavel (volume 1) and Blundell and MaCurdy (volume 3a).
    [Show full text]
  • State of the County Address L
    2019 STATE OF THE COUNTY ADDRESS L. Brooks Patterson • County Executive February 7, 2019 United Shore Financial Services • 585 South Boulevard East • Pontiac, MI 48341 2019 State of the County Address L. Brooks Patterson, Oakland County Executive Thursday, February 7, 2019 United Shore Financial Services Auditorium I. Elite 40 Winner/Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 1 II. Emerging Sectors: $5 Billion ............................................................................................................................ 2 III. Most Patents ..................................................................................................................................................... 2 IV. Outperforming States ...................................................................................................................................... 3 V. Economic Forecast ........................................................................................................................................... 3 VI. Talent Development ......................................................................................................................................... 4 VII. Supporting Small Businesses .......................................................................................................................... 4 VIII. Suburban Renewal ..........................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • The Impacts of a Mass Media Campaign on Women's Outcomes
    Toward Better Informed Decision-Making: The Impacts of a Mass Media Campaign on Women’s Outcomes in Occupied Japan Yoko Okuyama∗ Uppsala University December, 2020 Abstract This study examines the impact of women’s radio programs that the US-led occupying force aired in Japan (1945-1952) to dismantle the prewar patriarchal norms. Using local variation in radio signal strength driven by soil conditions as an instrumental variable, I provide causal evidence that greater exposure to women’s radio programs increases women’s electoral turnout, which further translates into a greater vote share for female candidates. This positive effect contributes to women’s greater representation in the national legislature: had there not been women’s radio programs in place, the number of female winners would have been halved. Moreover, exposure to women’s radio programs contributes to a decline in fertility and therefore had an important implication for the nation’s demographic landscape. The declining fertility is due neither to an increase in women’s career aspirations nor to a decline in marriages. My results are not driven by a preexisting correlation between radio signal strength and women’s behavior before the US occupation. Although research shows that gender norms have historical roots and move slowly, my findings provide evidence that public policy can cut against them to promote equal participation in decision-making. Key words: mass media, gender norm, equal representation, fertility ∗Kyrkogårdsgatan 10B, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 753 13 Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail: [email protected]. I am very grateful to my doctoral advisors Ebonya Washington, Joseph Altonji, and Costas Meghir for their guidance and support.
    [Show full text]
  • Case 1:20-Cv-11283 Document 8 Filed 07/08/20 Page 1 of 7
    Case 1:20-cv-11283 Document 8 Filed 07/08/20 Page 1 of 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE and MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 20-cv-11283 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT; CHAD F. WOLF, in his official capacity as Acting Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security; and MATTHEW ALBENCE, in his official capacity as Acting Director United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Defendants. DECLARATION OF MARK C. ELLIOTT I, Mark C. Elliott, hereby state under the penalty of perjury that the following statements are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge, and that I could testify to these matters if called to do so: 1. I am Vice Provost for International Affairs of Harvard University (“Harvard” or the “University”), and am also the Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History. As Vice Provost, I have responsibility for supporting Harvard’s community of international students, scholars, and faculty at Harvard, as well as advancing Harvard’s international academic initiatives and Harvard’s global strategy. 2. I have been deeply involved in the University’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning in February 2020, members of Harvard’s administration began developing policies and Case 1:20-cv-11283 Document 8 Filed 07/08/20 Page 2 of 7 guidance in response to the pandemic. Since that time, I have worked with fellow administrators, as well as experts across the University and throughout the world, to make thoughtful and reasoned decisions for our operations that prioritize the safety of Harvard’s students, faculty, and staff.
    [Show full text]
  • Annual Report 2019 Annual Report 2019
    Annual Report 2019 Annual Report 2019 1 Annual Report 2019 4 11 Letter from the Director 14 Signature Events 27 Flagships of the Hutchins Center 72 A Synergistic Hub of Intellectual Fellowship 84 Annual Lecture Series 86 Archives, Manuscripts, and Collections 88 Research Projects and Outreach 96 Our Year in Events 102 Staff 104 Come and Visit Us Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Harvard University 27 42 50 52 Project on Race, Class & Cumulative Adversity at the Hutchins Center 59 Harvard University 60 62 65 69 70 71 Director Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Executive Director Abby Wolf The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research is fortunate to have the support of Harvard University President Lawrence S. Bacow, Provost Alan M. Garber, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay, Dean of Social Science Lawrence D. Bobo, Administrative Dean for Social Science Beverly Beatty, and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development Laura Gordon Fisher. What we are able to accomplish at the Hutchins Center would not be possible without their generosity and engagement. Lawrence S. Bacow Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Glenn H. Hutchins Alan M. Garber Marcyliena Morgan and Abby Wolf Claudine Gay Cover: Façade of the Hutchins Center 4 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Glenn H. Hutchins, ex officio Emmanuel K. Akyeampong Lawrence D. Bobo, ex officio Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham William Julius Wilson Emmanuel K. Akyeampong Lawrence D. Bobo Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham William Julius Wilson 5 STEERING COMMITTEE Abby Wolf Executive Director of the Hutchins Center Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African Sheldon Cheek American Research Assistant Director of the Image of the Black Archive & Library Glenn H.
    [Show full text]