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Robert Kaufman is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University. He received his A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has been a Research Associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs in l967-68 and again in l975-76. In l980-8l he was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Research Fellow at the Collegium Budapest in 1997. In 2000 and 2015 he was a Visiting Scholar at Nuffield College, Oxford University. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a member of the Executive Council and as Treasurer of the American Political Science Association, and President of the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association from 2015-2017.

He has written widely on authoritarianism and democratic transitions, and on the political economy of economic reform. His current research focuses on backsliding in democratic regimes in Latin America, other developing and post-communist countries, and the United States. Most recently, he is the co-author, with Stephan Haggard, of Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World, from Cambridge University Press (2021), and Dictators and Democrats: Elites, Masses, and Regime Change (2016) from Princeton University Press, co-winner of the Best Book Prize awarded by the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association.

Drawing on more than two decades of experience, Colleen Hewitt Klein is a seasoned professional in higher education. They hold a BA from West Virginia University in sociology and anthropology, and MA from Marshall University in student affairs counseling. Since 1999, they have worked at various higher education institutions including Drexel University, Drew University and Princeton University. Colleen oversees the administrative operations of the PhD and UNMA programs while maintaining a hands-on role with the undergraduate political science program.

David Greenberg is a professor of History and of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. His latest book is a biography of Congressman John Lewis, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in October. A Guggenheim Foundation, NEH, and Cullman Center fellow, he is the author or editor of several books on American history and politics including Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image (2003) and Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency (2016). Formerly acting editor of The New Republic and columnist for Slate, he now writes regularly for Politico, Liberties, and many other scholarly and popular publications. He holds a PhD in history from Columbia University and a BA from Yale and lives with his family in Manhattan

B.A. from Swarthmore College and Ph.D. from Yale University

He taught previously at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2003 to 2006 Blair served as Executive Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He served earlier as Dean of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Chair of the Department of Economics, and Director of the Bureau of Economic Research.