Lisa Anderson (scholar)

Lisa Anderson is the James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She has been on the Columbia faculty since 1986 and, just prior to her appointment as dean, served as chair of the political science department at Columbia. Dean Anderson also served as director of Columbia's Middle East Institute from 1990 to 1993. From 1997 until 2007 she served as dean of the faculty.

She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She earned a PhD in political science from Columbia University, where she also received a certificate from the Middle East Institute. From 1981 to 1986, she was an assistant professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. Lisa Anderson was also the president of the Middle East Studies Association in 2003, [http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/Pres%20Addresses/Anderson.htm] and chair of the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council. She is a member of the council of the American Political Science Association and serves on the board of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. She is member emerita of the board of Human Rights Watch, where she served as cochair of Human Rights Watch/Middle East. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Her academic specialty is state formation and regime change.

elected publications

* Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-first Century (Columbia University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-231-12606-9
* The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830–1980 (Princeton University Press, 1986) ISBN 978-0-691-00819-6
* Transitions to Democracy, Editor (Columbia University Press, 1999) ISBN 978-0-231-11591-9
* The Origins of Arab Nationalism, Coeditor (Columbia University Press, 1991) ISBN 978-0-231-07434-6

ee also

*Middle East
*Comparative Politics
*State Formation