This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Jeffrey Herbst" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(November 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Jeffrey I. Herbst
Born
(1961-03-24) March 24, 1961 (age 63)
Jamaica, Queens, New York, U.S.
Education
Princeton University (BA,1983) Yale University (MA & MPhil,1985) Yale University (PhD, 1987)
Title
President of the American Jewish University
Spouse
Sharon Polansky
Children
Matthew Herbst, Spencer Herbst, and Alana Herbst
Jeffrey I. Herbst is an American political scientist, specializing in comparative politics, and in July 2018 became the president of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California.[1] Herbst was previously the 16th president of Colgate University, and president and CEO of the Newseum in Washington, D.C.[2] He resigned from his post at the Newseum in 2017 as the museum announced financial issues.[3] Prior to assuming the presidency of Colgate in 2010,[4] 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., MPhil 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.[5] 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[6] 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.[7]
Herbst has two siblings, his sister Susan Herbst who was the President of the University of Connecticut, and his brother Steve Herbst, who is Vice President of broadcasting and global media strategy for NASCAR.[8]
^"AJU Announces Jeffrey Herbst, PHD as New President". American Jewish University. June 4, 2018.
^"Jeffrey Herbst Selected as Newseum President and CEO". Retrieved July 9, 2015.
^Sullivan, Margaret (August 28, 2017). "Newseum's president steps down as financial review begins". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
^"Herbst named 16th President of Colgate University". WKTV. November 16, 2009. Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
^Herbst, Jeffrey; Greg Mills (July 11, 2013). "The World Bank's Diminishing Role in Africa". The New York Times. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
^"Luebbert Best Book Award Winners 2001". American Political Science Organization. January 14, 2015. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
^"Biographies - Jeffrey Herbst". Colgate University. Colgate U. Retrieved June 6, 2011.
^McGlone, Peggy (July 5, 2015). "Newseum named former Colgate president as its next CEO". The Washington Post.
Jeffrey I. Herbst is an American political scientist, specializing in comparative politics, and in July 2018 became the president of the American Jewish...
developmental (or even more generally, cultural) trajectories. Jared Diamond, JeffreyHerbst, Ian Morris, and other social scientists sparked a revival of the theory...
Lessons in Authority and Control is a book on African state-building by JeffreyHerbst, former Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Princeton...
and transformation of goods and services produced by the population" JeffreyHerbst holds that there is another relevant characteristic of modern states:...
Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles in 1989. Herbst has two brothers: Jeffrey, president of the American Jewish University and Steve, vice...
have a positive effect on political development. Political scientist JeffreyHerbst argues that interstate war is a requisite factor in the formation of...
(1947–1963) and David Lieber (1963–1992). The current president is JeffreyHerbst (2018–present). In March 2007, officials from the University of Judaism...
to be held by opposition leaders. According to political scientist JeffreyHerbst, Mbeki's HIV/AIDS policies were "bizarre at best, severely negligent...
the 2019 season, he split JGR's No. 18 with Jeffrey Earnhardt, Kyle Busch, and Denny Hamlin. In 2020, Herbst assumed full-time driving duties in the No...
nationalism is inherently exclusionary and thus potentially violent, while JeffreyHerbst posits that external threats can foster nationalist sentiment: "External...
entry fees.[citation needed] In August 2017, the Newseum's president, JeffreyHerbst, resigned in the face of the museum's financial problems. In February...
acknowledging that the final SADF and UNITA offensives were unsuccessful, JeffreyHerbst, a political scientist at Princeton University, remarked: However, despite...
sovereign borders in a territory where they had never previously existed. JeffreyHerbst has written extensively on the impact of state organization in Africa...
democratization period from 1893–1958, with only war-related reversals." JeffreyHerbst, in his paper "War and the State in Africa" (1990), explains how democratization...
a high ranking US official involved in Operation Restore Hope, and JeffreyHerbst, Associate Professor at Princeton University, "The intervention in Somalia...
Havighurst Hall, and Thomson Hall. In March 2006, Miami University Provost JeffreyHerbst recommended to Miami University President Dr. James C. Garland that...
falling to 34 years old. Scholars of comparative politics, like in JeffreyHerbst's "War and the State of Africa", argue that the lack of border disputes...
2018). "Jeffrey Earnhardt to run 9 Xfinity races for JGR in 2019". ESPN. Retrieved January 30, 2019. McFadin, Daniel (January 30, 2019). "Riley Herbst to compete...
Grabois (1988–1999) Charles Karelis (1999–2001) Rebecca Chopp (2002–2009) JeffreyHerbst (2010–2015) Brian Casey (2016–Present) "John C. Cushman III '63: 10...
to produce a particular desired goal was intrinsic to social power.” JeffreyHerbst draws on the wealth-in-people concept when writing about power in pre-colonial...
The German Autumn (German: Deutscher Herbst) was a series of events in Germany in 1977 associated with the kidnapping and murder of industrialist, businessman...
University In office 2002–2009 Preceded by Charles Karelis Succeeded by JeffreyHerbst Personal details Born 1952 Kansas, United States Spouse Frederick Thibodeau...
musician Robin Auld on his song, "This Is How It Works." Greg Mills; JeffreyHerbst (2002). Poverty to Prosperity: Globalisation, Good Governance and African...
California, Davis: Science, medicine, and technology in Elizabethan London. JeffreyHerbst, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University:...
on more than 20 original shows with composer James Kaplan, director JeffreyHerbst, co-founder Doc Heide, and frequent guest artists Paul Sills and James...
Global Information