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DEAN FRED HARRIS PROFILED AND INTERVIEWED IN THE COLUMBIA RECORD

Political Scientist and Dean of the Social Science Division Fred Harris was interviewed in a front-page profile for Columbia Record, where he shared his vision and goals for his deanship.

Economist Eric Verhoogen was quoted in a feature for Philly.com examining the community impact of the sneaker start-up Patos, which sustainably sources artisan-made footwear produced in Peru.

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 Michael Carlos Best, assistant professor of Economics at Columbia University, was awarded the President’s Global Innovation Fund for the Jordanian Economic Policy Research Initiative, a project that will study economic policy in Jordan with a focus on taxation and public spending.

Throughout my life, politics and political science have been intertwined. I handed out leaflets for Adlai Stevenson at age 12, participated in protests at Oberlin and Berkeley, and, as I developed professional expertise, worked with national security agencies. Conflict has been a continuing interest, particularly whether situations are best analyzed as a security dilemma or aggression. In exploring this question, I was drawn into both political psychology and signaling, although the two are very different.