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This blogger will be moving

Some news. I’m going to be leaving Yale this summer and taking an Assistant Professor position at Columbia University, a joint appointment with the political science department and the School of International and Public Affairs.

For the enquiring minds, my first motive was in many ways personal, to live in the same city as my wife and daughter, and have a 15-minute as opposed to a 150-minute commute. It certainly helps to have such a terrific destination.

It’s a bittersweet departure, however, since I’m very fond of New Haven, my department, and amazing colleagues. But Columbia is a great new intellectual home, with some of the most exciting development and political economy research and teaching in the world.

Students: I’ll be teaching the political economy of development to PhDs, African development to SIPA students, and the politics of violence to undergraduates.

Expect a future post on selling you on studying at Columbia.

11 Responses

  1. Congratulations! All the best at Columbia. Looking forward to hearing more about your work there.

  2. Congratulations. It’s good on many levels. I did my graduate work at Columbia in economics. That was many moons ago and the university has changed quite a bit, but it remains a stimulating place. One of my oldest friends is there in political science — Ira Katznelson. If you haven’t already met him, look him up.

  3. Your blog has been an inspiration for me for quite sometime. As a SIPA alum I welcome you to Columbia university.

  4. Chris – As a SIPA alum and practitioner of BE at ideas42, I’m happy to hear about your move. Columbia is lucky to have you. Please come visit us at ideas42 (now located in Midtown) when you get settled and we can discuss BE in Africa , which is one of my focus areas. Alexandra

  5. As a 1st-year PhD in SIPA’s Sustainable Development program who has been reading your blog and following your work for the past 2+ years, this is the best news I could’ve heard this week. Congratulations! – I look very forward to your conversion into a Lion.

  6. Professor Blattman, I had you at Yale and I’m currently applying to SIPA for the fall. So if I get in, you being there will be a huge selling point!

  7. Congratulations on your move! I worked as a research scholar at SIPA last year and found it a very rewarding environment. Sorry not to overlap with your time there though – I feel very envious of your future students!

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