Curriculum Vitae

KENNETH SHARPE ADDRESS: (Office) Department of Political Science Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA 19081 (610) 328-8101 (Home) 521 Elm Avenue Swarthmore, PA 19081 (610) 544-9398 (email) ksharpe1@swarthmore.edu DATE OF BIRTH: April 2, 1945 EDUCATION: 1974 Ph.D. in Political Science, Yale University (with Distinction) Dissertation Title: From Consciousness to Control: A Study of a Dominican Peasant Movement. 1967-70 Pre-dissertation requirements completed for Ph.D. in Political Science at Yale University. 1966-67 M.Sc. in Political Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science. 1962-66 B.A. in Chemistry at Dartmouth College FIELD RESEARCH:

2015 Summer research on designing palliative care medicine service and shared decision making at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.

2013-2014 Visiting Scholar, Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College. Research on

designing palliative care medicine service and shared decision making at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Research on prosecutorial discretion and the learning of practical wisdom. Research on coaching university teachers for faculty development.

2014 Research on how practical wisdom can be taught to student attorneys. Law clinic, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder Colorado (January-February 2014).

2001-2002 Visiting Faculty, Department of Educational Studies, The University of British Columbia (November 2001 - May 2002) Preliminary research for a new course on practical wisdom. 1994 Two weeks field research in the Dominican Republic on popular organizations and environmental policy as consultant for the Ford Foundation.

1991 Two weeks field research in Guatemala and Nicaragua on the democratization process and the role of U.S. foreign policy and structural adjustment programs on the political economy of the region.

1989 Three weeks field research in Nicaragua on the electoral process, the democratization process within popular organizations, and on economic policy.

1987 One month of field research in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala on the impact of elections, the effect of U.S. policy, and the Arias plan.

1984 One month of field research in Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua

on the internal impact of U.S. foreign policy and on regional negotiations in the Contadoran process. 1983 Two weeks field research in Nicaragua on the internal impact of U.S. policy and regional peace initiative. 1980-81 Five months field research in Mexico on industrial policy making and policy implementation in the automotive sector and state-TNC conflicts. 1979 Five weeks field research in Mexico on the role of the U.S. government in state-TNC relations. 1976-77 Fifteen months field research on the role of the state and transnational corporations in the Mexican political economy. 1975 Three months field research on the impact and regulation of multinational corporations in Mexico. 1971-72 Six months field research on the politics of agrarian reform in the Dominican Republic.

1970-71 Sixteen months dissertation field research on the politics of a peasant movement in the Dominican Republic. TEACHING: 1973- Professor, Department of Political Science, Swarthmore College 2014 Thomson Visiting Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School.

Course in “Legal Ethics and Pratical Wisdom” with Deborah Cantrell. January-February 2014.

2012 Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia. Course with Maxwell

Cameron, “Practical Wisdom in Politics: Is it an Oxymoron?” January-May 2012

1991-2003 Professor, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program, Dartmouth College (summers) 1972-73 Acting Instructor, Department of Political Science, Yale University 1972 Visiting Professor, Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic: courses on "Peasant Movements and Modernization in the Dominican Republic" and "Political Anthropology." TEACHING FIELDS: Political Theory Ethics Latin American Politics U.S. Foreign Policy PUBLICATIONS:

Books and Monographs

2012 New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America (Palgrave

Press), forthcoming (co-editors E. Hershberg, M. Cameron). 2010 Practical Wisdom: The Right Way To Do the Right Thing (with Barry

Schwartz), Penguin/Riverhead Press.

1996 Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial, (with Eva Bertram, Morris Blachman, and Peter Andreas), University of California Press, 1996.

1986 Confronting Revolution: Security Through Diplomacy in Central

America, co-edited with Morris Blachman and William LeoGrande, Pantheon Books, 1986. (See also Articles).

The Impact of U.S. Policy in El Salvador, 1979-1985, (with Martin Diskin), Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

1985 Transnational Corporations vs the Mexican State: The Political

Economy of the Mexican Automobile Industry (with Douglas Bennett), Princeton University Press.

1977 Peasant Politics: Struggle in a Dominican Village (Baltimore: Johns

Hopkins University Press).

Articles

2016 “Practicing Practical Wisdom,” Mercer University Law Journal (with

Deborah Cantrell), forthcoming 2015. “Teaching Ourselves to Teach,” (with Elizabeth Bolton) Inside Higher Ed,

January 26, 2016. 2014 “Moral Jazz and Patient Centered Care,” published in the Arnold P. Gold

Foundation in Humanism in Medicine. http://humanism-in-medicine.org/moral-jazz-and-patient-centered-care/July 15, 2014.

2013 Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe, “The War on Wisdom and How to Fight It.” In Mark L. Jones, Paul A. Lewis, and Kelly E. Refitt, Toward Human Flourishing, Character, Practical Wisdom and Professional Formation, (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2013).

2012 “Colleges Should Teach Intellectual Virtues,” The Chronicle of Higher

Education, February 24, 2012 (with B. Schwartz).

“Educating the 21st Century Cop: Developing Blue Courage and Practical Wisdom” Police Chief, November (forthcoming), with M. Nila and B. Schwartz.

“Voice and Consequence: Direct Participation in Latin America” (with E. Hershberg and M. Cameron) in New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America (Palgrave Press), (co-editors E. Hershberg, M. Cameron). “Institutionalized Voice in Latin American Democracies,” (with M. Cameron) in New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America (Palgrave Press), (co-editors E. Hershberg, M. Cameron).

2011 “Do Grades as Incentives Work,” Psychology Today Blog (with B.

Schwartz), January 9.

“How Bad Incentives Can Destroy Good Ideas: The Case of Microcredit” Psychology Today Blog (with B. Schwartz), January 18.

2010 “Andean Left Turns: Constituent Power and Constitution-Making,” in

Andean left Turns: Politics, Policies and Trajectories of Change, ed. Maxwell Cameron and Eric Hershberg (Boulder Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010), (with M. Cameron).

“Why A Good Principal Still Needs a Wise Doctor”, Psychology Today Blog (with B. Schwartz) December 18.

“What Hairdressers Can Teach Us About Practical Wisdom,” Psychology Today Blog (with B. Schwartz) December 29.

2009 “Better incentives won’t lead to better health care,” Slate, August 4, 2009

(with Barry Schwartz)

“The Twisted Logic of War,” review of Peter Andreas, Blue Helmets and Black Markets, Swarthmore College Bulletin, January 2009.

2006 “Practical Wisdom: Aristotle Meets Positive Psychology,” Journal of

Happiness Studies v:7, i:1, 2006 (with Barry Schwartz).

“Realpolitik or Imperial Hubris: The Latin American Drug War and U.S. Foreign Policy in Iraq,” Orbis, Summer 2006.

2001 “Refueling a Doomed War on Drugs: Flawed Policy Feeds Growing Conflict” (with B. Spencer), NACLA, Report on the Americas, November/December 2001. 2000 "Capitalism, Work, and Character," (with Eva Bertram), The American Prospect, September 11, 2000. "Two Wars or One? Drugs, Guerrillas, and Colombia's New Violencia,"

(with William Leogrande), World Policy Journal, Fall 2000. 1997 “The Global Drug War: Fatal Flaws,” World Policy Journal, Winter 1996-97. 1993 “The Military, the Drug War and Democracy in Latin America: What

would Clausewitz Tell Us? Small Wars and Insurgencies, Vol 4, Winter 1993, No. 3.

1992 “Cocaine Politics in the Andes,” (with Peter Andreas), Current History,

February, 1992.

Democratization in Central America: The Role of Political Parties,” (with Morris Blachman), in Louis Goodman and William LeoGrande, editors, Political Parties in Central America, Westview Press. “Dead-End Drug Wars,” (with P. Andreas, E. Bertram, and M. Blachman),

Foreign Policy, Winter 1991-1992. 1990 "The War on Drugs: American Democracy Under Assault," (with Morris Blachman), World Policy Journal, Winter 1989-1990.

"Central America: Learning from the Legacy," (with Morris Blachman), Journal of Third World Studies, Fall 1990.

"The Democracy-Drug War Tradeoff," World Outlook, Summer 1990. 1989 "The Drug War: Going After Supply," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Summer/Fall 1988. 1987 "The Real Cause of Irangate," Foreign Policy, Fall 1987. “The Post-Vietnam Formula under Siege: The Imperial Presidency and Central America,” Political Science Quarterly, Winter 1987-88.

1986 “El Salvador Revisited: Why Duarte is in Trouble,” World Policy Journal, Spring 1986. "El Salvador," in Abraham Lowenthal, editor, Latin America and the

Caribbean Contemporary Record, (New York: Homes and Meier, 1986). "De-Democratization of U.S. Foreign Policy: Dismantling the Post-Vietnam Formula," Third World Quarterly, October 1986. 1984 "Is There a Democracy Overload?" (with Douglas Bennett), Dissent, (Summer, 1984).

"Facing Facts in El Salvador: Reconciliation or War?" World Policy Journal, Spring 1984 (with Martin Diskin). "El Salvador: The Policy That Failed," (with Dr. Morris Blachman) in Richard Newfarmer, ed., From Gunboats to Diplomacy (Johns Hopkins University Press, l984). 1982 "Capitalism, Bureaucratic Authoritarianism, and Prospects for

Democracy in the United States," International Organization, Summer 1982 (with D. Bennett).

198l "The State as Banker and Entrepreneur: The Last Resort Character of the Mexican State's Economic Intervention, 1917-1970,” in Sylvia Hewlett and Richard Weinert, editors. Brazil and Mexico: Patterns in Late Development (ISHI Publications: Philadelphia). Full version. “El control de las multinacionales: las contradiciones de la mexicanixacion," Foro Internacional (Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico) Vol. XXI, No. 4, abril-junio, 1981. "La Industria automotriz mexicana y la politica economica de la promocion de exportaciones. Algunas problemas del control estatal de las empresas transnacionales," (with D. Bennett), in Fernando

Fajnzylber, editor, Industrializacion e internacionalizacion en la america latina (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1981).

1980 "The State as Banker and Entrepreneur: The Last Resort Character of the Mexican State's Economic Intervention," Comparative Politics, Spring, 1980 (with D. Bennett). Short version. "El Desarollo de la Industria Automotriz en Mexico: Los Papeles del Estado y de las Corporaciones Transnacionales," in La Empresa Mexicana: Algunas Perspectives de las Ciencias Sociales, Vivian B. de Marquez, ed., (Mexico City: E. Colegio de Mexico, 1980). 1979 "Agenda Setting and Bargaining Power in TNC-Host Government Conflicts: The Case of the Mexican Automobile Industry," World Politics, October 1979 (with D. Bennett). Reprinted in Kenneth

Mericle and Richard Kronish, editors, The Political Economy of the Latin American Automobile Industry (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984).

"Transnational Corporations and the Political Economy of Export Promotion," International Organization, Spring, 1979 (with D. Bennett). Reprinted in Trimestre Economico, (Mexico City), Vol.

XLVI (3), No. 183, Juio-Septembre , pp. 715-746. 1978 "Mexico and the Multinational Corporations: An Explanation for State Action," (with D. Bennett and M. Blachman) in Joseph Grunwald, ed., Latin America and World Economy: A Changing International Order, (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1978).

1977 “Corporate Strategies in the Dominican Republic: The Politics of Peasant Movements," in James M. Malloy, Ed., Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977).

1976 "Los Intermediarios," Revista EME-EME Estudios Dominicanos, (Santa Domingo), Vol. IV, 22, Jan.-Feb. 1976.

1975 "El Sistema de control en el mercado de Cafe," Revista EME-EME Estudios Dominicanos, (Santo Domingo), Vol. IV, No. 20, Sept.-Oct. 1975.

"El Campesino de la Sierra: El Problema de Vivir," Revista EME-EME Estudios Dominicanos, (Santa Domingo), Vol. IV, No. 21, Nov.-Dec. 1975. "La Lucha Campesina En La Republica Domincana: Poder, Communidad, Inglesia," Estudios Sociales, (Santa Domingo), Ano VIIII, Numero 4, 1975.

1974 "Un Dia en la Vida de Un Campesino Dominiciano" Revista EME-EME Estudios Dominicanos, (Santa Domingo), Sept.-Oct. 1974. 1972 "Problemas de Cooperativismo Dominicano Ante La Estructura Nacional de Poder," Estudios Sociales, (Santo Domingo), Ano V. Numero 2, Abril- Mayo-Junio, 1972.

1969 "Obstacles to Graduate Education in Political Science," P.S (Political Scientist), v. II, 4, pp. 622-41, co-author.

Selected Newspaper and Magazine Articles: 1989-Present

2003 “The Bush Doctrine; Small Nations Last Defense; Those threatened by U.S. preemption seek a shield in weapons of mass destruction.” (with Leogrande). The Los Angeles Times, February 9, 2003.

2001 “A Plan, But No Clear Objective. General Powell to Secretary Powell: We Need to Talk Colombia.” (with W. Leogrande), The Washington Post, Sunday, April 1, 2001.

2000 “Addicted to the Drug War,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 6, 2000. 2000 "Is U.S. Re-Creating El Salvador?" (with W. Leogrande), Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2000. "Alliance with a Predator," (with W. Leogrande), Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2000. "Keep Out of Colombia," (with B. Spencer), The Nation, April 3, 2000. 1999 “Escalation = More Drugs,” The Nation, March 29, 1999 (with Eva

Bertram). “Peace plan -- or a formula for conflict?” (Kosovo), The Boston Sunday Globe, May 9, 1999. “The Road to Peace? In Kosovo, a deal is struck. Now the real work

begins,” San Jose Mercury News, Sunday, June 6, 1999. "Drug War Money Brings Ever More Coruption," (with E. Bertram), Los Angeles Times, December 12, 1999. 1998 “Drug War Numbers Games,” (with Eva Bertram), In These Times, March 1998. “The Politics of Addiction,” (with Eva Bertram), in Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home, PBS Viewers Guide, March 1998. “The Drug War Corrupts Absolutely,” (with Eva Bertram), Los Angeles Times, October 4, 1998. 1997 “Resisters Say We’re Fighting the Wrong Battles,” (with Eva Bertram),

The Nation, January 6, 1997. “The Drug War’s Phony Fix: Why Certification Doesn’t Work,” (with Eva Bertram), The Nation, April 28, 1997. “U.S. Policy Corrupting Mexican Army,” (with Eva Bertram), Los

Angeles Times, August 10, 1997. “Drug Inflates the price of hypocrisy,” (with Eva Bertram), The Boston

Globe , February 21, 1997. (Also in The Miami Herald and The Baltimore Sun).

1996 “Drug War: The March of Folly,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 12, 1996 (also appeared in The Miami Herald and Newsday). “Rethinking the war on drugs: Clinton nominee may change tactics,” (with

Eva Bertram), The Baltimore Sun, March 3, 1996. “If you want to win drug war, change the method of attack,” (with Eva Bertram), San Jose Mercury News, March 17, 1996. “Busted Policy: An Alternative to the Failed War on Drugs,” (with Eva

Bertram), Swarthmore College Bulletin, August 1996. “An Alternative Democratic Platform: Drug Policy,” (with Eva Bertram),

In These Times, September 2, 1996. “Surefire way to lose drug war,” (with Eva Bertram), Chicago Tribune, September 17, 1996. “We’re Fighting the Wrong Drug War,” (with Eva Bertram), Newsday, September 20, 1996.

“How not to fight drugs: Clinton only gives lip service to treating abusers,” (with Eva Bertram), The Baltimore Sun, September 22, 1996.

“The drug debate: A double standard,” (with Eva Bertram), The Miami

Herald, September 22, 1996 (also appeared in the International Herald Tribune). “Did the Clinton Administration Drop the Ball on Drug Interdiction

Policy?”, Insight, November 4, 1996. “An intransigent drug policy,” (with Eva Bertram), In These Times, November 11, 1996. 1994 “Shaping the U.S. role in El Salvador,” Chicago Tribune, March 26, 1994. (Also in Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, and The Miami Herald.)

1993 “A drug-abuse approach that works,” Chicago Tribune, February 26, 1996.

1992 “El Salvador’s Peace Accord and U.S. Choices,” Miami Herald, January 5, 1992.

“The Panama ‘drug bust’ goes bust,” The Sunday Boston Globe, January 5, 1992.

“Smoking out our Drug Foes,” New York Newsday, January 9, 1992.

“What Latin Officers Can Learn from Noriega,” The Baltimore Sun, January 8, 1992

1991 “Salvador aid: A rush to ‘symmetry’”, Chicago Tribune, January 10, 1991.

“Facing reality in Central America,” Chicago Tribute, March 26, 1991.

“U.S. Holds to Old Habits in El Salvador,” The Christian Science Monitor, March 18, 1991.

“Drug Dealers fight a deadly war for a shrinking market,” (with Peter Andreas), Sunday Boston Globe, May 5, 1991.

“Who’s Not on Trial in El Salvador,” Miami Herald, September 29, 1991.

“How Dictators Profit From the Drug War,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, December 9, 1991.

“12,000 Women Against an Army,” (with Valerie Miller), Los Angeles Times, December 10, 1991.

“U.S. losing the drug war in Panama,” Chicago Tribune, December 19, 1991.

1990 "Let's Not Militarize the War on Drugs," Newsday, February 12, 1990. "The Drug war vs. Democracy," Toronto Globe and Mail, February 1990. "Nicaragua still gets a cold eye," The Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 3, 1990. "Monitoring Nicaragua," The Boston Globe, February 13, 1990.

"Must Ortega Be the Fairest of Them All?", The Los Angeles Times, February 21, 1990.

"Nicaragua: The Sour-Grapes Brigade," The New York Times, February 21, 1990.

"Nicaragua tests ‘The Limits of Diversity," The Baltimore Sun, February 25, 1990. "The Conservatives' triumphalism on Nicaragua is dangerous,"

Chicago Tribune, March 4, 1990.

"Nicaragua After the Election" (with Ralph Fine), The Miami Herald, March 4, 1990. "Sacrificing liberties to the drug war," The Miami Herald, March 25, 1990.

"Drug Wars: Enforcement vs. education debates focus on wrong point," The Atlanta Constitution, April 11, 1990. "Bounty hunters and the drug war," Chicago Tribune, April 26, 1990. "Salvadoran Foot-Dragging Wears out the Welcome Mat on Capital Hill," The Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1990.

"A flawed strategy for the resurgence of Central America," Chicago Tribune, June 29, 1990.

"Our Sainted Free Market Ran Amok," (with Bruce Cate), Los Angeles Times, July 29, 1990).

"America's double standard on aid," The Chicago Tribune, December 15, 1990.

"Taking Care of the Contras," The Baltimore Sun, December 18, 1990. 1989 "What Should Bush Do About El Salvador," Newsday, February 3,

1989.

"Secrecy, National Security, and the Constitution," The Baltimiore Sun February 19, 1989.

"Demand Results Before Aiding El Salvador," Newsday, May 30, 1990. "Should U.S. Play in Salvadoran Arena?" St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 30, 1989. "Rethink Salvador Aid," The Christian Science Monitor, June 2, 1989.

"Salvadoran regime will have a need for new excuses," The Baltimore Sun, June 4, 1989.

"What to Convey to El Salvador," The San Jose Mercury News, June 4, 1989.

"How the US can really help in El Salvador," (with Morris Blachman), The Boston Globe, June 19, 1989.

"An assumption leading to abuse" (The sentencing of Oliver North), The Boston Globe, July 10, 1989. "Central American Accord: U.S. Window of Opportunity," The Miami Herald, August 13, 1989. "The U.S. Is Alone on a Limb in Nicaragua," Newsday, August 11, 1989. "A kiss of death from US to Nicaragua," The Boston Globe, September 23, 1989. "Blank Check for the Hard Line in El Salvador," The Los Angeles Times, September 22, 1989. "Devising a New Drug Strategy," an Jose Mercury News, September 24, 1989.

"How can U.S. win on Nicaragua's political battlefield," The Baltimore Sun, September 24, 1989.

"Peace for El Salvador," The Christian Science Monitor, September 26, 1989. "Preached Democracy or Practiced?" The Chicago Tribune, November 17, 1989. "In El Salvador, Echoes of the Tet Offensive," Newsday, November 21, 1989. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC LECTURES: 2015 “Practical Wisdom for Prosecutors”, presentation, pilot course,

Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, District Attorney’s Office, Philadelphia PA 21 May 2015 (with Michelle Waymire)

2014 “How To Do the Right thing: Designing Institutions Where Wise

Practitioners Can Flourish”, presentation at Symposium: Can Practical Wisdom be Learned? Lessons from the Medical School (and Elsewhere), Dartmouth College, September 20, 2014

“Practical Wisdom: The App That Can’t Be Found,” Institute for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics, Dartmouth College, February 24, 2014.

“Designing for Patient Centered Care When There is No Cure.” GoldLab

Symposium 2014 in Boulder, Colorado, May 16-17, 2014. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTxSqcxcCTw&feature=youtu.be)

Presentation on Practical Wisdom and Prosecutorial Discretion at the

Prosecutorial Leadership Roundtable organized by the American Prosecutors Association in Washington and the Bureau of Justice Assistance to plan a training course for Prosecutors. March 27-8, 2014.

May 2014. Appointed head of the Practical Wisdom Working Group by

American Prosecutors Association Prosecutorial Leadership Roundtable; tasked with designing the practical wisdom section for “a curriculum in prosecutorial leadership to train and equip prosecutors with the requisite skills to encourage criminal justice cooperation, ethical behavior, recognize innovation, and motive others to facilitate action and change.”

“Practical Wisdom and Police Discretion,” lecture to Boston area police at

the Blue Courage Course (sponsored by The Bureau of Justice Assistance in the Department of Justice.) July 16-17, 2014.

“The Struggle for Palliative Care: How Did the Pioneers at Dartmouth

Make it Happen,” Palliative Care Rounds, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, 5 August 2014.

Lecture at Symposium “Can Practical Wisdom Be Learned? Lessons from

the Medical School (and Elsewhere).” Title of talk: “How to Do the Right Thing: Designing Institutions Where Wise Practitioners Can Flourish.” Moore Theater, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, September 20, 2014.

2013 “Practical Wisdom and Medical Education,” Richland Memorial Hospital, Continuing Medical Education staff seminar, Colombia, South Carolina, 17 May 2013 “Practical Wisdom in the World of Non-Profits,” Non Profit Summit of the Georgia Center for Non-Profits, May 22, 2013 Atlanta, Georgia.

2012 “Quality and Diversity of Democratic Regimes in the Andes; New

Mechanisms of Direct Institutionalized Democracy,” paper delivered at the Latin American Studies Association Convention, San Francisco, May 23-26 (with Maxwell Cameron).

“Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing,” public lecture at the Vancouver Institute, Vancouver, B.C., February 4.

“Practical Wisdom and Its Enemies: Nurturing Good Character in an Age

of Rules and Incentives,” Peter Wall Institute, University of British Columbia, Practical Wisdom Colloquium, February 9.

“If Aristotle is right about friendship, what does friendship teach us about

our other relationships?”, Presentation and Seminar at Peter Wall Center, University of British Columbia, March 15.

“What Does Practical Wisdom Have to Say About the Governance of

Animal Rights,” Animal Rights Forum, University of British Columbia, March 27.

“Practical Wisdom and Work Safety,” Presentation at the Human Factors

Community of Practice Colloquium sponsored by WorkSafe BC, Richmond, B.C., April 12.

How Do You Create A “Learning from-Error Culture” Instead of An

“Aversion to Error” Culture”, Harvard Graduate School of Education LILA conference on Weaving Wisdom in Organizations, June 13.

2010 “Practical Wisdom,” Lecture (with Barry Schwartz) to Chief Learning

Officers, Wharton School of Business, December 8. 2011 “Why Writing Associates Need Practical Wisdom and How They Learn

It,” Keynote Address at Swarthmore Conference Celebrating 25 Years of WAing, March 18.

“How Wisdom is Driven Out of Our Practices and What Can Be Done

About It”, Ethical Culture Society of Philadelphia,” April 24. “Practical Wisdom at Swarthmore: Learning the Right Way to Do the

Right Thing,” Swarthmore Alumni Presentation, June 3.

2009 “Why Swarthmore Professors Can’t Teach Practical Wisdom (But Why They Often End Up Doing it Anyway)”, Alumni Lecture, Austin, Texas, March 10 and New York City, March 29.

2008 Keynote Address, “The War on Wisdom and How to Fight It,” at The

Mercer University Third Annual Symposium on Vocation and Professionalism Across the Professions: Practical Wisdom: The Character of the Professions, October 30-31, 2008. Mercer University, Athens, Georgia (with Barry Schwartz).

Commentator for conference on “Left Turns in Latin America,” Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., April 17-19, 2008.

2006 Acting Chair, Political Science Department

“The Drug War in Latin America: What it Teaches us About U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East,” Alumni Lecture, Old Church, Portland Oregon, January 6 2006.

2005 “Practical Wisdom,” Lecture to Swarthmore Alumni, San Francisco L.G.B.T. Center, January 6, 2005. “Teaching Practical Wisdom to College Seniors,” Lecture, Williams College, 6 May 2005. “Real Politick or Imperial Hubris: Lessons from the Latin American Drug War,” Lecture, Department of Political Science, Comparative Politics Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, November 14, 2005. “Colombia: Terrorism, Drugs, and Civil War,” Latin American Politics Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, November 14, 2005.

2004 “The War in Colombia,” Lecture at the Liu Institute, Centre of International Relations, University of British Columbia, January 14, 2004.

“Practical Wisdom: The Course,” Lecture to Swarthmore Alumni, Old Church, Portland, Oregon, January 10, 2004 and at the Harbor Steps Conference Center, Seattle, Washington, January 15, 2004. “Practical Wisdom and Positive Psychology,” Paper delivered at a conference on The Philosophical History of Strengths and Virtues, sponsored by the Positive Psychology Network, The University of Pennsylvania, September 3, 2004 (with Barry Schwartz). “U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Colombia,” public presentation at the Centre of International Relations, The University of Columbia, January 14, 2004. “Practical Wisdom in the Classroom and in Everyday Life,” presentations to Swarthmore Alumni groups in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, January 8 and 15, 2004. “Practical Wisdom: Aristotle Meets Positive Psychology,” with Barry Schwartz, presentations at the Conference on the Philosophical History

of Strengths and Virtues, The University of Pennsylvania, September 3, 2004 and at The Third International Positive Psychology Summit, Washington, D.C., October 2, 2004. 2003 Bard College, Lecture “The War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs: The Imperial Strategy in Colombia,” November 13, 2003. 2002 Member, three person committee for external review of the Department of Government, Smith College, October 2-4, 2002. 2001 “The Drug War in Colombia and U.S. Assistance: Into the Quagmire? Again.” Lecture delivered at Providence College, February 26, 2001. “Traffic, The Sequel. The Drug War in Colombia.” Lecture delivered at Brown University, February 26, 2001. LASA convention. “The Quagmire in Colombia: Addressing the Drug War Habit.” Lecture delivered at the White Dog Cafe, April 30, 2001. Assessing U.S. Policy Toward Colombia. Paper prepared for Colombia Workshop, May 15, 2001, Smith Richardson Foundation, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Washington, D.C. “U.S. Policy in Colombia: Is There a Way Out?”, Bard College Institute for International Liberal Education, presentation at the home of George and Susan Soros, May 15, 2001. “The Drug War In Colombia: The Counter-Narcotics Strategy.” Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association, September 7, 2001, Washington, D.C. Panel organizer, Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., September, 2001, “The Drug War in Colombia: A Debate on U.S. Foreign Policy.” 2000 "U.S. Counter-Narcotics Policy in Latin America: The Colombian Case," Washington Office on Latin America, Public Lecture, Washington, D.C., November 1, 2000. "Two Wars or One? Drugs, Guerrillas, and Colombia's New Violencia," Foreign Policy Roundtable presentation and seminar, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, New York City, October 25, 2000. "The Regional Impact of the Colombian Drug War," lecture at Bard College, September 18, 2000.

1999 “Neo-Liberalism, Drugs and Democracy,” presentation at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, March 22, 1999.

"What the Faith Community Can Teach the Drug Warriors," lecture at Conference on Drugs and Violence, General Board of Global Ministries, Methodist Church, Baltimore Washington Conference Center, Columbia, MD, October 23, 1999. 1998 “The Great Coverup: Narcofs-Politics and U.S. Mexican Relations,”

presentation at The Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, November 18, 1998.

Chair, Commentator, The U.S. Drug War in the Americas: Impacts on Democratization and Human Rights in the Americas, Latin American Studies Association, XXI International Congress, Chicago, September 26, 1998. “The March of Folly: How a Failed War on Drugs Undermines U.S.- Mexican Relations,” (with Eva Bertram), paper presented to the New England Council of Latin American Studies Conference, Wellesley College, October 24, 1998. 1997 Chair, Department of Political Science “Fighting the Free Market: The Unwinnable Drug War,” paper presented

at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., February 13, 1997.

“Breaking the Drug War Habit,” paper presented at forum sponsored by

the Office of Health Education, The University of Pennsylvania, April 8, 1997.

1996 Chair, Department of Political Science “Politics, Paradigms and Harm Reduction: Why Public Health Seems So

Radical”, Panel Presentation at The Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse, Reston, Virginia, November 8, 1996.

Plenary Forum, “Drug Reform from Above: Lessons from Clinton’s First Term,” Drug Policy Foundation Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., November 7, 1996. “Drug Politics: Four More Years,” paper presented at a Special Seminar of

the Lindesmith Center, The Open Society Institute, November 20, 1996. “Narco-trafficking, Money Laundering, and the Politics of Denial,”

paper presented to the International Studies Center, Muhlenberg College, March 13, 1996. 1995 Chair, Department of Political Science “Drug War Addiction: Clinton and the Politics of Denial,” paper prepared for the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Boston, Massachusetts, November 15-19, 1995. Chair, Panel on U.S. foreign policy in Central America and the Caribbean, Latin American Studies Association. 1993 Chair, Department of Political Science 1992 Chair, Department of Political Science Lectures on U.S. drug policy at home and in Latin America at the Federal Executive Seminar, Merchant Marine Academy Kings Point, New York; at the U.S. Army War College in Carlyle, PA; at the Inter-American Defense College, Washington, D.C.; League of Women Voters, West Orange, New Jersey. Academic Presentations given on U.S. drug policy at the Latin American Studies Association Convention in Los Angeles; and the University of Miami. Lectures on U.S. policy in Central America at the U.S. Army War College, Carlyle, Pa; and at the Central American Working Group Conference, Blue Mountain New York. 1991 Chair, Department of Political Science Lectures on U.S. drug policy at the Federal Executive Seminar, Merchant Marine Academy Kings Point, New York; at the Washington office on Latin America. Academic Presentation on U.S. drug policy given at the Drug Policy Foundation Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Lecture on Prospects for Peace in Central America, U.S. Army War College, Carlyle, PA.

1990 Lectures on Central America, U.S. Drug policy in the U.S. and in Latin America, and U.S. foreign policy at Dartmouth College, Haverford College, The Americas Society, and Yale University.

Presentation at Socialist Scholars Conference in New York, April 1990 on "The Nicaraguan Elections: Explaining the Results and the Consequences for U.S. Policy.”

Briefings on Nicaraguan elections to editorial boards: The New York Times, The Boston Globe.

1989 Lectures on Iran-Contra affair, U.S. foreign policy and Central America including ones at Exeter, Dartmouth College, Middlebury College, University of Delaware, M.I.T., and The U.S. Army War College.

Presentation of Paper on the "Drug War in America: Effect on Democracy," at Symposia on Drugs, National Security and U.S. Public Policy at Tufts University, February 27, 1989. Presentation on "Drugs and Democracy" at Drug Conference at SAIS, Washington, DC, March 6, 1989. Congressional Briefings on Central America for Congressman Ben Cardin. 1988 Lectures on the Iran Contra Affair, U.S. foreign policy, and Central America given at the World Affairs Council (Philadelphia, Springfield, Mass.), Michigan State University, Dartmouth College, American University, University of Chicago, St. Lawrence University, Wellsley College, University of Massachusetts, the Army War College, University of Pennsylvania, and at the World Policy Institute in New York. Presentation on Panel on "The Right to Participate: Toward an Operational Definition," American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C. 22 April, 1988. "The Reagan Legacy in Central America," paper presented at the Latin American Studies Convention, New Orleans, March 16-19, 1988. Congressional Staff Briefings for Congressmen Jim Slattery (May 18) Peter Kostmayer, and Jim Moakley (May 31). 1987 Congressional Staff Briefing organized by the World Affairs Institute (November 2). Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. foreign policy toward Nicaragua (January 28). Lectures on the Iran Contra Affair, U.S. foreign policy, and Central

America given at Middlebury College, the Connecticut League of Women Voters annual conference, Brown University, Providence College, Bennington College, MIT, Dartmouth College, the Socialist Scholars Conference, and the Institute for Policy Studies. 1986 "The Post Vietnam Formula Under Siege: The Imperial Presidency and Central America," paper presented at the Conference on the United States and Central America, A Five Year Assessment, 1980- 1985, held at the University of Southern California, in February 1986. "De-Democratizing U.S. Foreign Policy: Dismantling the Post Vietnam Formula," (with Morris Blachman), paper presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) conference in Los Angeles. March 1986. Lectures on Central America and on U.S. foreign policy given at the University of Washington, Berkeley Law School, the University of Southern California, Dartmouth College, Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, Cornell University, and the University of South Carolina. Editorial Board, International Organization(1985-86). Co-Director, U.S.-Central America Policy Committee with Morris Blachman and William LeoGrande, a group of 15 academics preparing a study of U.S. foreign policy toward Central America (1982-86).

1985 Lectures on U.S. foreign policy and Central America and on the internal political situation there given at Holy Cross, Dartmouth College, Exeter

Academy, and Dickinson College. 1984 Congressional Staff Briefing on U.S. Policy in El Salvador, January 1984. Lectures on U.S. Foreign Policy in Central America given at the University of Pittsburgh, University of South Carolina, Dartmouth College, University of Minnesota, Temple University, Bryn Mawr College and LaSalle College. 1983 "U.S. Foreign Policy and Democracy at Home," with Dr. Morris Blachman. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 1983. Briefing on U.S. Foreign Policy in El Salvador for Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro (D.NY) and Ted Weiss (D.NY). Lectures on U.S. Foreign Policy in Central America given at the

University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Graduate Center of City University of New York, Dartmouth College. 1982 Testimony on El Salvador, prepared with Dr. Morris Blachman, before the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, Feb. 25, 1982. 1981 "Capitalism, Bureaucratic Authoritarianism and Prospects for Democracy in the United States," (with D. Bennett), paper presented at the New England Council on Latin American Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Oct. 3, 1981 "Transnational Corporations, Export Promotion Policies and U.S.- Mexican Automotive Trade," (with D. Bennett), paper presented at the American Political Science Association Convention, New York City, September 4, 1981. Co-Organizer of Conference on "The Changing International Economic Order and Prospects for Democracy in the United States,” Washington, D.C., April 3-4, 1981.

1980 "The Changing World Capitalist System and Prospects for Democracy in the United States," (with D. Bennett), paper presented at meeting of Social Science Research Council's Working Group on Transnationals and the International Political Economy, at the Overseas Development Council, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1980.

1979 "National and International Constraints on the Exercise of Power by the

State: The Echeverria Sexenio in Mexico," paper presented at Latin American Studies Association Convention, Pittsburgh, April 1979 (with D. Bennett and M. Blachman). "The World Automobile Industry and Its Implications for Developing Countries," paper presented at the 20th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, February, 1979. "The Mexican State as Banker and Entrepreneur," paper presented at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Latin American Program, January, 1979 (with D. Bennett). 1978 U.S. Scholar-Respondent, panel on "The People of Mexico: Images and Realities," Atlanta Historical Society, October 8, 1978, organized by the "Mexico Today Symposium," under the sponsorship of the Meridian House International, Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, the Center for Inter-American Relations, National Endowment for the Humanities.

"Multinationals and Economic Development: U.S. Business vs. the Mexican State?", paper presented at the Latin America Seminar Series, chaired by Ambassador Robert McBride, Dartmouth College, July 20, 1978. "The Dominican Republic: The Origins of the Electoral Crises," a series

of five seminars given at the Foreign Service Institute, Washington, D.C., July 13-14, 1978.

"The Mexican Revolution Today," lecture given at the Foreign Service Institute, Washington, D.C., April 24, 1978. "The State and Private Sector in Mexico (with D. Bennett), paper presented at Brazil-Mexico Seminar sponsored by Columbia University’s Latin American Studies Program and the Center for Inter-American Relations, Columbia University, May 12, 1978. Organizer, Chairman, of Social Science Research Council Working Group Seminar on "The Transnational Automobile Industry in Latin

America," May 4-5, 1978, at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, and December 18, 1978, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

"The State and the Transnational Corporations in Mexico," presentation and discussion at Yale's Latin American Studies Program Conference on Mexico, March 22-23, 1978, New Haven, CT (co-chaired with Gary Gereffi). Grant Review Committee for the Doherty Fellowship Program, Princeton University, March 16-18, 1978. "The State as Banker and Entrepreneur: The Last Resort Character of the Mexican State's Economic Intervention," (with D. Bennett), paper presented at the l9th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Washington, February, 1978. 1977 "The Political Economy of the Mexican Automobile Industry," a paper presented at the seminar series on The State and the National Bourgeois in Latin America at the Colegio de Mexico, June, 1977. "Transnational Corporations vs the Mexican State: The Assembly and Disassembly of Automobile Policy," (with D. Bennett). Paper presented at the l8th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chase Park Plaza Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, March 16-21, 1977.

1976 “The State in Late Dependent Industrialization: The Control of

Multinational Corporations in Mexico," (with D. Bennett), paper presented at the 1976 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, The Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, Sept. 2-5, 1976.

"The State and Multinational Corporations in the Political Economy of Mexico," (with D. Bennett), paper presented at The Social Science Research Council Seminar on Latin America in the International System, May 25, 1976. "The Logic of Mexicanization," (with D. Bennett), paper presented at the Social Science Research Council Seminar on Latin America in the International System, May 25, 1976. 1975 "The National and International Constraints on Peasant Movements,” lecture given at Princeton University, sponsored by Department of Anthropology, November, 1975. "Ideology and Power: The Limits of ‘Concientizacion’," lecture given at the Anthropology Department, Johns Hopkins University, April, 1975. "The ‘Bootstrap’ Problem: The Obstacles to Community Organization

Among Peasants," given at York University, Toronto, sponsored by the Social Science Program, March, 1975.

1974-75 Co-organizer, Seminar on Authoritarianism in Mexico, Center for Inter- American Relations, New York City. 1974 "Incorporation Through Agrarian Reform: The Consequences of Catholic Social Action," paper presented at Conference on Corporatism and Authoritarianism in Latin America, April 4-6, University of Pittsburgh. GRANTS AND AWARDS: 2013-14 Templeton Foundation Grant for research project “How Character and

Practical Wisdom are Learned: Re-Designing Institutions to Get the Practitioners We Need”

2001 Mellon New Directions Grant for research project “Work and Character in the New Economy” 1997 Drug War Politics books nominated as finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award

1985-86 Grant from the Institute for the Study of World Politics to do research on the impact of U.S. foreign policy on constitutional democracy here at home. 1983 Grants from the Tinker Foundation, the Heinz Foundation and the Ford Foundation for field research, working group seminars, and preparing book Confronting Revolution. 1978-81 Grant from the Tinker Foundation for a project entitled “Transnational Corporations and the Mexican State: The Political Economy of the Mexican Automobile Industry." 1976 Grants from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Tinker Foundation, the Social Science Research Council for field research on the impact and regulation of multi-national corporations in Mexico. Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities on the social implications of foreign investment in post-Revolutionary Mexico.

1975 Grants from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Social Science Research Council for preliminary field research on the political economy of direct foreign investment in manufacturing in Mexico.

1974 Ph.D. awarded with Distinction, Yale University. 1970 Grant from the Foreign Area Fellowship Program of the Social Science Council and the American Council of Learned Societies for two years field work and manuscript preparation on the politics of peasant movements in the Dominican Republic. 1968-70 NDEA Fellowship for Graduate Study at Yale.

1967-68 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship for Graduate Study at Yale. 1966-67 Reynolds Fellowship for Foreign Study at the London School of Economics and Political Science, awarded by Dartmouth College. 1966 Graduate cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth College. Updated 2/17/16