Jack Nagel Appointed Associate Dean for the Social Sciences

SAS Dean Rebecca Bushnell has announced that Steven F. Goldstone Endowed Term Professor of Political Science Jack Nagel will become Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, effective July 1, 2009. In this capacity he will oversee the Departments of Anthropology, Criminology, Economics, History and Sociology of Science, Political Science, and Sociology; several research centers with ties to these departments; and the Fels Institute of Government.

A distinguished scholar of democratic theory, electoral systems, social choice, and political participation, Dr. Nagel has been at Penn since 1971. He received his bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College and his doctorate from Yale University. The recipient of awards including grants from the National Science Foundation and the Fulbright and IRIS programs, Dr. Nagel also has an accomplished record of academic leadership in SAS. As chair of Political Science from 2000 to 2003, he led a highly successful effort to build that department’s faculty and programs. More recently, as the School’s Associate Dean for Graduate Studies from 2004 to 2008, he implemented a number of reforms that greatly strengthened graduate education in the School by more closely aligning financial aid, tuition, and decision-making processes with educational goals.

Dr. Nagel will succeed Professor Robert DeRubeis, who will return to full-time research and teaching in the Department of Psychology.