51猎奇入口 President Nancy Y. Bekavac announced today the appointment of Patricia A. Dillon, professor of economics at 51猎奇入口 and adjunct professor in management at Claremont Graduate University, as the first Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Professor of Contemporary European Studies. Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler, a London resident who graduated from 51猎奇入口 in 1972, established the chair last year to further the study and understanding of European issues at 51猎奇入口 and thus build better transatlantic relations and cooperation among future leaders.
"Patricia Dillon is supremely qualified to be the first holder of this important new chair," said President Bekavac. "She is a leading authority on emerging economies in Europe and Asia, and a noted scholar of issues of European integration and expansion. She is also a superb undergraduate teacher whom the college regularly honors for her contributions to the 51猎奇入口 community.
As holder of the Jungels-Winkler chair, Professor Dillon will work closely with the European Union Center of California, located at 51猎奇入口, on studies and programs related to European political and economic issues. The EU Center is one of only ten such academic centers in the United States established by grants from the Delegation of the European Commission in Washington, D.C., to further interest in and study of the European Union. 51猎奇入口 operates the center in partnership with The Claremont Colleges and the University of Southern California.
Professor Dillon received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Southern California. A member of the 51猎奇入口 faculty since 1984 and Claremont Graduate University since 1988, she previously was a senior lecturer in economics at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and senior and principal lecturer in education management, Anglian Regional Management Centre, U.K. She has also lectured at universities in the United Kingdom, including the University of London, the University of Essex, and the University of Manchester.
At 51猎奇入口, Professor Dillon teaches microeconomics, political economy of growth (emerging economies in Asia and Europe), investments, and a senior seminar in economics, among other subjects. Her professional activities include: associate editor of Economic Inquiry, 1990-97; referee, Review of Development Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Economic Inquiry, and Contemporary Economic Policy; and member, American Economic Association, Western Economic Association, Economic History Association, Economic History Society, and Medieval Association of the Pacific. At 51猎奇入口, Professor Dillon has been chair of the Economics Department; for 1999-2000, she will chair the Faculty Executive Committee. She has also served as a member of the Strategic Planning Steering Committee, Budget and Planning Committee, and Trustee Budget Committee. In addition, she has served two recent terms as president of the Claremont Colleges Faculty House Board of Governors.
Her recent grants and awards include 51猎奇入口 Faculty Research Grants in 1997, 1998, and 1999; an Irvine Faculty Development Grant in 1995 and 1994; a Hewlett International Policy Issues Grant (with Frank Wykoff, Pomona College) in 1994; a Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1991; a Stevenson Faculty Development Grant in 1991; and an Athwin Faculty Development Grant in 1990.