ROBERT LIEBERMAN

Robert Lieberman is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His book Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State, published by Harvard University Press, won the Lionel Trilling Book Award for best book by a Columbia faculty member, an honorary mention for outstanding book by the Gustavus Myers Program for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, and the President's Book Award of the Social Science History Association.. Professor Lieberman’s research interests are in American political development, race and politics, and social welfare policy and the welfare state. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review and Social Science History, as well as an edited volume on race in American politics. He has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, and has been a visiting fellow at the Center of Domestic and Comparative Policy Studies at Princeton. Professor Lieberman hold a PhD and an MA in Political Science from Harvard University, and a BA in Political Science from Yale University.

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