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Robert Lieberman
International Affairs Building, Room 1427
Chair, Department of International and Public Affairs; Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs, Columbia University, SIPA
Phone: 212-854-4725
rcl15@columbia.edu
Biography:
Robert Lieberman is an assciate professor of political science and public affairs at Columbia University. Currently, his research interests are in American political development, race and politics, and social welfare policy and the welfare state.
Lieberman is the author of Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State and has edited a volume on race in American politics. He has also written several articles that have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, and Social Science History, such as "Race, Institutions, and the Administration of Welfare," "Social Construction," and "Looking Inward, Looking Outward: The Politics of State Welfare Innovation Under Devolution."
Lieberman's recent works include Race, State, and Policy: American Race Politics in Comparative Perspective (Princeton 2005); "Diversity in U.S. Social Insurance: A Historical Overview," in Strengthening Community: Social Insurance in a Diverse America, edited by Kathleen Buto, Martha Priddy Patterson, William E. Spriggs, and Maya Rockeymoore (National Academy of Social Insurance, 2004); and "Race and the Limits of Solidarity: American Welfare State Development in Comparative Perspective," in Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform, edited by Sanford F. Schram, Joe Soss, and Richard C. Fording (University of Michigan 2003).
Lieberman holds a BA from Yale University as well as an MA and a PhD from Harvard University. He has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, and has been a visiting fellow at the Center of Domestic and Comparative Policy Studies at Princeton University. In addition, he has been the recipient of the American Political Science Association's Leonard D. White Award, the Social Science History Association's President's Book Award, the Harvard University Press's Thomas J. Wilson Prize, and Columbia University's Lionel Trilling Award.
Research Interests: Race, American Political Development, Welfare