Jeffrey Herbst

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Jeffrey I. Herbst
Born (1961-03-24) March 24, 1961 (age 63)
Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States
Education Princeton University (BA,1983)
Yale University (MA & MPhil,1985)
Yale University (PhD, 1987)
Title President and CEO of Newseum
Spouse(s) Sharon Polansky
Children Matthew Herbst, Spencer Herbst, and Alana Herbst

Jeffrey I. Herbst is an American political scientist, the former 16th President of Colgate University, and currently President and CEO of the Newseum in Washington, D.C.[1] Prior to assuming the presidency of Colgate in 2010,[2] he was Provost, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, and professor of political science at Miami University. He received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1983, M.A., M.Phil from Yale University in 1985, and Ph.D. in 1987 also from Yale. He is married to Sharon Polansky, with whom he has three children, Matthew, Spencer, and Alana.

Herbst has written extensively on political and international affairs in Africa.[3] He is the author of State Politics in Zimbabwe (Perspectives on Southern Africa) and States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control (Princeton University Press, 2000), which received the 2001 Luebbert Best Book Award[4] in comparative politics for the year 2000 from the American Political Science Association. It was also a finalist for the 2001 Melville J. Herskovits Award for the best book in African studies awarded by the African Studies Association.[5]

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