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LBJ School Appoints Six New Faculty Members

Six new faculty members with a range of academic and professional experience in nonprofit management, international affairs and social policy will join The University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs this fall. Peter Frumkin has been appointed as a tenured professor and will serve as director of the LBJ School’s RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service. Eugene Gholz, Shreyasi Jha, Alan J. Kuperman and Cynthia Osborne will hold tenure-track appointments as assistant professors, and Jane Arnold Lincove will be a postdoctoral fellow.

Frumkin is an associate professor of public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he is affiliated with the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. An internationally recognized scholar and consultant on nonprofit management and philanthropy, he is currently working on a large-scale empirical study of the effectiveness of AmeriCorps and VISTA. Frumkin is the author of numerous articles as well as two books, On Being Nonprofit (Harvard University Press, 2002) and Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.

Gholz is currently an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky’s Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, where he leads the international commerce track and teaches courses in globalization, economic statecraft and defense statecraft. He has also been a research associate at MIT’s Security Studies Program, where he participated in the MIT Working Group on the Defense Industries; a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations; and a member of the Board of Advisors at the Independent Institute’s Center on Peace and Liberty. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jha has a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University. Her doctoral dissertation, titled “Linkages between Trade Liberalization and Environmental Policy: Evidence from India,” won the 2004 Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the Association of Public Policy and Management. Since 2002 Jha has been a consultant for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., working variously with the Bank’s Institute Evaluation Group, Environmental and Socially Sustainable Development Network, and Environment Department. Her policy interests are in international development, international trade and environmental policy.

Kuperman is resident assistant professor of international relations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He has published numerous articles, reviews and op-eds on topics related to international relations and conflict management, particularly in relation to ethnic conflict and humanitarian intervention. In addition to his academic experience, Kuperman has been a fellow in the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Caribbean Affairs, legislative director for Congressman Charles Schumer of New York, legislative assistant for U.S. House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, and chief of staff for Congressman James H. Scheuer.

Osborne, who is a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, specializes in family policy, poverty and social policy, and urban population dynamics. She has a Ph.D. in demography and public affairs from Princeton University, a master of public policy degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and an M.A. degree in education from Claremont Graduate University. She has written numerous working papers and conference presentations on topics related to family policy, and is the author of an article published this spring in the Journal of Marriage and Family called “Marriage Following the Birth of a Child Among Cohabiting and Visiting Parents.”

Lincove is a policy research consultant for the Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles and a research assistant for the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate. Past experience includes work as a project associate for Public Works, Inc., a nonprofit consulting firm, and as development coordinator for Para Los Niños, a nonprofit children’s agency. Lincove is completing a Ph.D. in public administration from the University of Southern California and has a master’s in public policy from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her areas of specialization are public administration, international political economy, and policies affecting children and families.

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17 May 2005

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