Kenneth Prewitt

Kenneth Prewitt joined the faculty of Columbia University?s School of International and Public Affairs in 2002 as the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs. Prewitt, director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1998-2000, recently published Politics and Science in Census Taking (Russell Sage). He has also published on how the ethno-racial classification is used in national statistics, and why it is now undergoing radical change, a topic on which he has lectured widely. Among the dozen other books he has authored or co-authored are Political Socialization, Elites and American Democracy, The Recruitment of Political Leaders, and a textbook on American government. From 1976 to 1979, Prewitt served as the director of the National Opinion Research Center. He was the senior vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1985 to 1995, and was twice the president of the Social Science Research Council (1979-1985; 1995-1998).