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Mertha named recipient of Harbison fellowship
By Gerry Everding Andrew Mertha, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science and of International and Area Studies (IAS), both in Arts & Sciences, has been named the Earle H. and Suzanne S. Harbison Faculty Fellow. The fellowship provides research and teaching support for three years to a talented junior faculty member in Arts & Sciences.
Mertha joined the faculty in July 2001 after earning a doctorate in political science at the University of Michigan. His scholarly interests include international trade, policy implementation and enforcement, bureaucratic politics and political institutions, and intellectual property rights. In Arts & Sciences, Mertha serves as a fellow at the Center in Political Economy, as an academic adviser for the Visiting East Asian Professionals program and as a participant in conferences held by the Center for New Institutional Social Sciences. He teaches "Crossing Borders I," a core course in the new curriculum for IAS, a program that helped recruit him to the University. "Andy has been a real asset for the IAS program," said James V. Wertsch, Ph.D., IAS director and the Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences. "He’s doing a great job in the classroom, and he’s been a real plus for the faculty in the planning of IAS programs and projects." A native of New York City, Mertha earned a bachelor’s in political science from the University of Michigan in 1987. He studied Mandarin Chinese at the United Nations in New York and at Sichuan Teacher’s University in China. He worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong, where he represented a U.S. toy importer in dealings with Chinese officials and factory managers. He has lived in China for six years. In 1998, Mertha began 14 months of dissertation research in municipalities and provinces across China. His dissertation explores factors that set the negotiation agenda for the intellectual property trade dialogue between Washington and Beijing in the 1990s and subsequent patterns of intellectual property enforcement in China. Last year, Mertha began a second project examining the administrative (re)centralization of several key Chinese commercial bureaucracies in the late 1990s. Mertha’s work has been recognized with teaching awards, a Center for Chinese Studies en-dowment award from the Univer-sity of Michigan and a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education. Honors here include the Grimm Fellowship in 2001 and the ArtSci Council’s faculty award in 2002. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Inter-national Studies Association and the Association for Asian Studies. The faculty fellowship was established in 1995 by Earle H. Harbison, who graduated from the University in 1948 with a bachelor’s degree in political science, and his wife, Suzanne Siegel Harbison, who earned a degree from the Olin School of Business in 1949. Earle Harbison is chairman of Harbison Corp. and past president and chief operating officer of Monsanto Co. He serves on the University’s Board of Trustees and as chair of the Arts & Sciences National Council. The fellowship rotates every three years. It was held first by Ingrid Monson, Ph.D., associate professor of music in Arts & Sciences, and second, by Lisa Baldez, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science. |
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