Peter Uvin

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Peter Uvin
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Belgium
EducationGhent University
University of Geneva/Graduate Institute of International Studies
OccupationPolitical scientist
EmployerClaremont McKenna College

Peter Uvin (born 1962)[1] is a Belgian-born American political scientist. He is a professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. He was the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty. He resigned that position on 28 August 2020. He is the author of four books, including Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda, which won the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association in 1999.[2]

Education and career

Uvin earned a licentiate in diplomatic science from the University of Ghent in 1984, and a second licentiate in political science from the same university in 1985. After studying at the University of Stockholm, he earned a PhD in political science at the University of Geneva's Graduate Institute of International Studies in 1991. After several visiting positions he joined Brown University as Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor in 1994.[3] Uvin became Henry Leir Professor in Humanitarian Studies at Tufts University in 2000,[4] and academic dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts from 2007 to 2013.[3] He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2006.[5] In 2013 he was hired by Amherst College as its first provost.[6] He moved again to Claremont McKenna in 2015.[7]

Books

Uvin is the author of:

  • The International Organization of Hunger (Kegen Paul International, 1994)[8]
  • Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda (Kumarian Press, 1998)[9]
  • Human Rights and Development (Kumarian Press, 2004)[10]
  • Life After Violence: A People's Story of Burundi (Zed Books, 2013)[11]

References

  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved May 20, 2019.
  2. ^ Kuntz, Patricia S. (January–March 2000). "Book Awards". Africana Libraries Newsletter. 101.
  3. ^ a b "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Claremont McKenna College. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
  4. ^ "Chairs endowed at Fletcher and Dental Schools". Graduate school news. The Tufts Daily. Tufts University. April 1, 2001.
  5. ^ "Peter Uvin". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
  6. ^ Monaghan, Peter (January 28, 2013). "Expert in Diplomacy to Become Amherst College's First Provost". Inside Higher Education.
  7. ^ "New Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty named at Claremont McKenna College". Newsroom. Claremont McKenna College. May 4, 2015.
  8. ^ Reviews of The International Organization of Hunger:
  9. ^ Reviews of Aiding Violence:
  10. ^ Reviews of Human Rights and Development:
    • Das, Sukanya Mohan; Goldstein, Ray; Elliott, Sue (October 2005). "A rights-based approach to development: Prospects and problems". Politics and Ethics Review. 1 (2): 207–214. doi:10.3366/per.2005.1.2.207.
    • Caterino, Brian (September 2007). Review of Radical Political Economics. 39 (3): 471–476. doi:10.1177/04866134070390031611.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  11. ^ Reviews of Life After Violence:
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