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Recent course offerings include Race and American Democracy (freshman seminar) and The American Welfare State. He is the author of The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States (Princeton University Press, 1997), as well as scholarly articles in The American Political Science Review, Journal of Policy History, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Public Administration Review, and Studies in American Political Development. He has won a college-wide teaching award from the Society of the Alumni as well as research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Joel Schwartz, Dean of Interdisciplinary and Honors Studies, Charles Center Director
Joel Schwartz is the Charles Center director and an associate professor in the college’s Department of Government where he teaches political philosophy. He also directs the Monroe Scholar program and teaches the interdisciplinary freshman seminar Perspectives on Citizenship and Community. The mission of the Charles Center is to strengthen teaching and learning at the college. As the center’s director, Joel has been instrumental in initiating the freshman seminar program, cultivating opportunities for undergraduate research, creating mechanisms for integrating the teaching and research missions of the college, providing cocurricular venues for students’ intellectual exchange, and supporting a diversity of curriculum development and teaching-enhancement programs for faculty.