Background
Lieberman, Robert Charles was born on September 26, 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Henry S. and Elizabeth (Caeser) Lieberman.
Lieberman, Robert Charles was born on September 26, 1964 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Henry S. and Elizabeth (Caeser) Lieberman.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1986 and his Doctor of Philosophy from Harvard University in 1994.
A scholar of American political development, Lieberman focuses primarily on race and politics and the American welfare state. From 1994 to 2013 he taught at Columbia University, where he served as chairman of the international and public affairs department from 2007 to 2012 and interim dean of the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) from 2012-2013. He was instrumental in recruiting leading faculty to SIPA, restructuring the curriculum, and convening an international conference on the future of global public policy education.
In 2013, he was named the 14th provost of Johns Hopkins University, concurrently joining the faculty of the department of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences on July 1, 2013.
In this role, Lieberman is responsible for "promoting and coordinating the university’s teaching and research mission" across the university"s nine academic divisions. He also has oversight for research at a university that for thirty-five years has led the country in higher education research spending.
Lieberman has written extensively on American political development, social welfare policy, issues of race and politics in America, institutional racism, and the welfare state. Books
2001, Shifting the Color Lincolnshire: Race and the American Welfare State.
Harvard University Press.
2005, Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective. Princeton University Press. 2009, Democratization in America: A Comparative-Historical Analysis. with Desmond King, Gretchen Ritter, and Laurence Whitehead, Johns Hopkins University Press.
Highly Cited Articles
Volume
96, nº 4, 697-712. 2000, with Greg M. Shaw, Looking inward, looking outward: The politics of state welfare innovation under devolution, in: Political Quarterly. Volume 53, nº 2, 215-240.
2001, with John South. Lapinski, American federalism, race and the administration of welfare, in: British Journal of Political Science. Volume 31, nº 2, 303-329.
2002, Weak state, strong policy: Paradoxes of race policy in the United States, Great Britain, and France, in: Studies in American Political Development.
Volume 16, nº 2, 138-161. 2009, with Desmond King, Ironies of state building: A comparative perspective on the american state, in: World Politics. Volume 61, nº 3, 547-588.
2015, with Fredrick C. Harris, Racial Inequality After Racism: How Institutions Hold Back African Americans, in: Foreign Affairs.
Volume(s) 94, nº 2.
( Shaping Race Policy investigates one of the most serio...)
( Despite the substantial economic and political strides...)
1998, Ideas, institutions, and political order: Explaining political change, in: American Political Science Review.
Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Lauren M. Osborne, June 16, 1991. Children: Benjamin, Martha, Aaron.
