Robert D. Putnam, American public policy professor.
Education
Bachelor, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 1963. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 1990. Fellowship, Oxford University, England, 1964.
Master of Arts, Yale University, New Haven, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy with distinction, Yale University, New Haven, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Stockholm University, 1993.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Ohio State University, 2000. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Antwerp, 2000. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Edinburgh, 2003.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), John Cabot University, Rome, 2006.
Career
From lecturer to professor political science University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1968—1979. Professor government Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1979, chairman department government, 1984—1988, associate dean faculty arts and science, 1986—1988, dean, John F. Kennedy School Government, 1989—1991, associate dean faculty arts and science, 1992—1994, director, Center International Affairs, 1993—1996, Stanfield professor international peace, 1996—2000, Peter and Isabel Malkin professor public policy, since 2000. Visiting professor political science Stockholm University, 1974, University Catania, Italy, 1977.
Member executive committee British Politics Group, 1974—1979, Council on European Studies, 1983—1986. President Conference Group on Italian Politics, 1981—1983. Member International Institute Strategic Studies, since 1986, Trilateral Commission, 1990—1998.
Advisory board Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, 1987—1989, Westchester Children's Museum, New York, Thomas C. Wales Foundation, Seattle. Advisory council on environmentally sustainable development World Bank, 1992—1996. Director, Saguaro seminar civic engagement in American John F. Kennedy School Government, since 1995.
Leverhulme visiting professor faculty history St. Johns College, Cambridge University, 2002—2003. Visiting professor, director graduate summer programme in social change University Manchester, England. Consultant in field.
Membership
Staff United States National Security Council, Washington, 1978. Active President's Council on Service & Civic Participation, 2003. President-electrical American Political Science Association, 2000—2001, president, 2001—2002, vice president, 1997—1998.
Advisory board Anne E. Borghesani Community Foundation, Lexington, Massachusetts. Fellow: National Academy Public Administration, American Academy Arts & Sciences, British Academy (correspondent). Member: National Academy of Sciences (assembly of behavioral & social sciences 1978-1981), Council on Foreign Relations, American Academy Political & Social Science, American Philosophical Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Rosemary Werner. Children: Jonathan, Lara.
Recipient Louis Brownlow Book award, National Academy Public Administration, 1993, Gregory Luebbert award, American Political Science Association, 1994, Ithiel de Sola Pool award, 1995, Charles H. Levin award, International Political Science Association, 1994, Wilbur Lucius Cross medal, Yale University Graduate School Arts & Science, 2003, Commendatore in the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, President, Italian Republic, 2004, Johan Skytte prize in Political Science, Statsvetenskapliga Institute, Uppsala University, 2006. Fellow, Social Science Research Council-American Council of Learned Societies, 1966-1968, Ford Foundation, 1970, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1974-1975, 1988-1989, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1977, 1979, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-1978, German Marshall Fund, 1979, Social Science Research Council-Fulbright, 1982, Social Science Research Council-Foreign Policy Studies, 1988-1989, Guggenheim fellow, 1988-1989. Fulbright fellow, 1964-1965, 1977, Marshall Lecturer fellow, University Cambridge, 1999.
Recipient Louis Brownlow Book award, National Academy Public Administration, 1993, Gregory Luebbert award, American Political Science Association, 1994, Ithiel de Sola Pool award, 1995, Charles H. Levin award, International Political Science Association, 1994, Wilbur Lucius Cross medal, Yale University Graduate School Arts & Science, 2003, Commendatore in the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, President, Italian Republic, 2004, Johan Skytte prize in Political Science, Statsvetenskapliga Institute, Uppsala University, 2006. Fellow, Social Science Research Council-American Council of Learned Societies, 1966-1968, Ford Foundation, 1970, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1974-1975, 1988-1989, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1977, 1979, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-1978, German Marshall Fund, 1979, Social Science Research Council-Fulbright, 1982, Social Science Research Council-Foreign Policy Studies, 1988-1989, Guggenheim fellow, 1988-1989. Fulbright fellow, 1964-1965, 1977, Marshall Lecturer fellow, University Cambridge, 1999.