Meredith Jung-En Woo, Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, U.Va.

Meredith Woo named Dean of Arts & Sciences

Meredith Jung-En Woo, an expert on international political economy and East Asian politics, became dean of the University of Virginia's College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences on June 1, 2008. Woo most recently served as associate dean for social sciences in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts and as a professor of political science at the University of Michigan.

Woo has written or edited seven books including Race to the Swift: State and Finance in Korean Industrialization (Columbia University Press, 1991), and Past as Prelude: History in the Making of the New World Order (Westview Press, 1993). Her most recent book, Neoliberalism and Reform in East Asia, published in September 2007, was the result of a project sponsored by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development and the Rockefeller Foundation.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton appointed her to the Presidential Commission on U.S.-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy. She has consulted for the World Bank, the United States Trade Representative, Asian Development Bank Institute, the Asia Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation.

Educated in Korea and Japan through high school, Woo received her B.A. at Bowdoin College (English Literature and History), and two master’s degrees (International Affairs and Latin American Studies) and a Ph.D. (Political Science) from Columbia University. Woo also has taught at Northwestern University, Colgate University and Columbia University.

Research Interests

Woo's teaching and research interests include international political economy, economic development, East Asian politics, and U.S.-East Asian relations.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D. in Political Science (with distinction), Columbia University, May 1988
• M.A. in Latin American Studies, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, January 1985
• M.A. in International Affairs, School of International Affairs, Columbia University, January 1982
• B.A. (magna cum laude), Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, May 1980. Majors: History and English.

Employment

• Associate Dean for Social Sciences, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, University of Michigan, 2007–2008.
• Korea Foundation Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, 2003–2008.
• Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, 2001–2008.
• Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, 1995–2001.
• Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, 1989–1995.
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Selected Publications

• Race to the Swift: State and Finance in Korean Industrialization (Columbia University Press, 1991), published under the name Jung-en Woo.
• Past as Prelude: History in the Making of the New World Order (Westview Press, 1993).
• Capital Ungoverned: Liberalizing Finance in Interventionist States (Cornell University Press, 1996).
• The Developmental State (Cornell University Press, 1999).
• Co-author, Presidential Report, Building American Prosperity in the 21st Century: Report of the Presidential Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy (Government Printing Office, 1997).
  
• Neoliberalism and Institutional Reform in East Asia (UNRISD, 2007).