CHRIS HILL AT THE WOODROW WILSON CENTER

Chris Hill, Professor of Public Policy and Technology, who spent the last eight years serving as Vice Provost for Research at SPP, will be on academic leave this year. Through May 31, 2006, he will be a research scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC, associated with their program “Science, Technology, America and the Global Economy,” directed by Kent Hughes. “My major activity there will be working on a book about civilian technology policy in the United States during the last half century,” Hill says. “I put the project on hold when I took the Vice Provost position in 1997, and am anxious to get back to it. The book will be an analytic treatment of major trends and events in the formation of public policies intended to influence both the rate of technological change and the nature of that change, and I hope to complete it this year.”

Professor Chris Hill

Hill is glad that the Wilson Center will enable him to work on the book in the context of a specific program concerned with some of the same issues as he is, and in the company of other thinkers who will challenge him to make his ideas accessible to a larger audience. “I’m very much looking forward to this involvement at the Center as a preparation for returning to the active SPP faculty in fall 2006,” he says.