CURRICULUM VITAE Milton J Esman John S. Knight Professor of International Studies, Emeritus Professor of Government, Emeritus Department of Government Cornell University Personal Data Born: Spouse E-mail 15 September, 1918, Pittsburgh, Pa Janice mje5@cornell.edu Education Princeton University, Ph.D. Politics. 1942 Cornell University, A.B. Government 1939 Harvard University, Military Government Training, 1944-45 Public elementary and secondary schools, Pittsburgh Experience Cornell University, Professor of Government, 1969-1989. Center for International Studies, Director, 1969-1983. Senior Advisor in Public Administration, Prime Minister s Department, Malaysia, 1966-1968. University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Professor and Director of Economic and Social Development Department, 1959-1969. US Operations Mission to Vietnam, Chief, Program Office, 1957-1959. International Cooperation Administration, International Relations Officer, Chief, Indo-China Desk, December 1954- March 1957. 1
George Washington University, Political Science Department (evening sessions, Lecturer in Political Science and Public Administration, 1948-1957. US Department of State, Research Officer, March 1951- December 1954. US. Civil Service Commission, Program Planning Officer, March 1947-March 1951. US Army, November 1942-December 1946. Civil Affairs Officer, Government Section, MacArthur s GHQ, Tokyo, participated in drafting current Japanese Constitution. Teaching, Research, and Consulting Interests The politics of ethnic, racial, and religious pluralism and the processes of regulating ethnic conflict. Development Administration the formulation and execution of development plans, programs, and projects, and the development of administrative institutions, mainly in Third World countries. The politics and administration of rural development in Third World Countries. Professor Esman organized and was the founding director of the Interuniversity Research Program on Institution Building, a consortium of four university centers studying the institution building process. He has been a consultant on development administration for a number of organizations, including the World Bank, the US Agency for International Development, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Labor Organization, the Ford Foundation, and the UN Development Program. 2
He has been a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and the Osmania University in India Selected Publications Ethnic Politics An Introduction to Ethnic Conflict. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. 2004. Ethnic Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1994. Carrots, Sticks and Ethnic Conflict: Rethinking Development Assistance (ed with Ronald Herring) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2001. Includes chapter on Policy Dimensions: What Can Development Assistance Do? International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict (ed with Shibley Telhami) Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press. 1995. Includes chapter A Survey of Interventions. Ethnicity, Pluralism, and the State in the Middle-east (ed with Itamar Rabinovich). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1988. Includes chapters, The Study of Ethnic Politics in the Middleeast and Ethnic Politics: How Unique is the Middle-east? Ethnic Conflict in the Western World (ed), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1977. Includes chapters, Scottish Nationalism, North Sea Oil, and the British Response and Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict in Industrialized Societies. The Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Diasporas and International Relations in Gabriel Sheffer, ed, Modern Diasporas in International Politics. New York: St. Martins. 1986. Political and Psychological Factors in Ethnic Conflict and Economic Performance and Ethnic Conflict in Joseph V. 3
Montville, ed, Conflict and Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies. Lexington MA: Lexington Books. 1989. Public Administration and Conflict Management in Plural Societies: the Case for Representative Bureaucracy in Public Administration and Development. October 1999. Public Administration, Ethnic Conflict, and Economic Development, Public Administration Review, November- December, 1997. Ethnic Politics and Economic Power, Comparative Politics. July 1987. The Politics of Official Bi-lingualism in Canada, Political Science Quarterly. Summer 1982. Revisiting Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Canade in Stephen Brooks, ed, The Challenge of Cultural Pluralism. Westport, CT: Praeger. 2002. Ethnic Actors in International Politics, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. Spring 1995. Japanese Administration: A Comparative View. Public Administration Review. June 1947. Development Administration, Institution Building, Rural Development Management Dimensions of Development: Perspectives and Strategies. East Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press. 1991. Local Organizations: Intermediaries in Rural Development (with Norman Uphoff). Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 1984/88. Administration and Development in Malaysia: Institution Building and Reform in a Plural Society. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1972. 4
The Common Aid Effort (with Daniel Cheever). Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press. 1967. The Elements of Institution Building in Joseph W. Eaton, ed, nstitution Building: From Concept to Application. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications. 1972. The Maturing of Development Administretion, Public Administration Review. (8) 125-134. 1988. American Politics Government Works: Why Americans Need the Feds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2000. The Emerging American Garrison State San Francisco: Peace Review. Spring. 2007. Federalism and Modernization: Canada and the United States. Publius: the Journal of Federalism. Winter, 1984. Special Awards 1989 Fred Riggs Award by American Society for Public Administration for Distinguished Contributions to International, Comparative, and Development Administration. Member of Political Science 400, most frequently cited political scientists, reported in PS, June, 1989. 5
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