December 17, 2007
Rothenberg named to Corrigan-Minehan Professorship
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Lawrence Rothenberg
Lawrence Rothenberg, an expert on interest groups and
environmental politics, has been named the Corrigan-Minehan Professor of
Political Science in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering. The
professorship supports a scholar who epitomizes the research and teaching
excellence of the late political scientist William Riker. It was endowed
through a gift from E. Gerald Corrigan and his wife, University Trustee
Cathy Minehan ’68.
“I’m delighted that the University is able
to recognize Larry Rothenberg’s imaginative scholarship and
significant contributions to political science thanks to the vision and
generosity of Jerry Corrigan and Cathy Minehan,” says President
Seligman.
Corrigan, a former chief executive officer of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, is a managing director at Goldman Sachs.
The professorship is part of a $3 million gift to the University, which
also will be used to fund scholarships. Minehan, former chief executive and
president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, now works at Arlington
Advisory Partners in Boston.
Rothenberg, who originally joined the University in
1989, is the former director of the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political
Economy at the University. From 2002 to 2005, Rothenberg taught at the
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, returning to the
University in 2005.
Gerald Gamm, chair of the Department of Political
Science, says Rothenberg is unique in his field because he integrates the
study of interest groups, bureaucracy, and regulation, rather than
examining interest groups in a vacuum.
“Typically, students of interest groups focus on
the inner workings of these groups or the interplay between them and the
agencies with which they interact,” Gamm says. “But Larry goes
much further, showing how decisions by presidents affect negotiations
between interest groups and agencies, how courts matter to the process, and
how policy is both a consequence and a cause of the mobilization of members
in these groups.”
Riker, who came to the University in 1962,
revolutionized the modern study of political science and with his
colleagues helped establish the Department of Political Science as one of
the nation’s leading centers in the field.
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