ByGeorge!

Summer 2005

Brown Selected to Serve as Elliott School Dean

Michael E. Brown, currently the director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University, will become the new dean of GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg recently announced. Brown was selected after an extensive global search and will assume the post on Aug. 1. He succeeds Dean Harry Harding who led the Elliott School for the past decade.

“The Elliott School is one of GW’s shining stars and the selection of Michael Brown as dean will augment its international reputation,” said Trachtenberg. “His background in security policy studies and leadership qualities will guide the world-renowned faculty and programs of the Elliott School to even brighter horizons.”

“I am honored by the University’s invitation to become the dean of the GW Elliott School of International Affairs and a member of the faculty of both the Elliott School and the political science department,” said Brown. “The Elliott School is one of the premier schools of international affairs in the world, known for both its cutting-edge scholarship and its superb teaching programs. It will play a leading role in advancing our understanding of the challenges of the 21st century and educating the next generation of national and international leaders.”

Brown has a broad background in international affairs. An expert on international security, his first book, Flying Blind: The Politics of the US Strategic Bomber Program, won the Edgar Furniss Book Award, one of the most prestigious book awards in the security studies field.

At Georgetown University, Brown was the director of the master’s program in security studies and the founding director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Under his leadership, the school diversified the course offerings in security policy and its student body by increasing the number of women enrolled in the program.

Harding has been named a University Professor, effective July 1. He will return to the classroom after finishing 10 years of service as dean of the Elliott School. Harding will teach courses on such topics as Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, US-China relations, and the international relations of the Asia-Pacific region.

On Aug. 1, Harding also will become the director of research and analysis and senior Asia analyst, at the Eurasia Group in New York. The private consulting firm provides political analysis and forecasts to a wide range of clients in the United States and abroad.

Harding becomes the seventh current University Professor, joining Peter Caws, Amitai Etzioni, Seyyed Nasr, Jim Rosenau, Kenneth Schaffner, and Stephen Saltzberg. Harding will take a leave of absence this coming academic year and return to the classroom in Fall 2006.


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