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Baum, Michael
CV Summary

·       January 2014 – Jan 2019, Executive Board Member of the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD)

 

·       October 2014 – Feb 1, 2019, Program Director of the Study in Portugal Network (SiPN)

 

Designed, developed and directed this project for the Luso-American Development Foundation to increase the visibility of Portuguese institutions of higher education within the North American study abroad market. Designed initially as a 4-university consortium based in Lisbon that welcomes students from North America for summer or academic-year direct-enrollment, the program eventually added a summer program at the Univ. of the Azores, summer internships for academic credit, a visiting family program, and dozens of short-term faculty-led programs for colleges and universities from all over the USA. Oversaw all aspects of the program and a staff of 3 dedicated to study abroad. Increased SiPN enrollment from 28 in 2015 to 338 in 2018, an 1100% increase in its first 3 years. By AY 2016/17, SiPN already accounted for 1 in 3 American students in Portugal (IIE Open Doors 2018).

 

·       September 2015 – present, Invited Professor in PhD program in Comparative Public Policy, ISCTE – University of Lisbon Institute (IUL).

 

·       2019 Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley, Institute of European Studies (IES).

 

·       February 2014 – October 2018 – Full Professor of Political Science (on extended leave), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

 

·       2002-2014, Associate Professor of Political Science, UMass-Dartmouth

 

·       May 2012, Visiting Professor, Trier University, Trier, Germany

 

·       1997-2002, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UMass-Dartmouth

 

·       June 1, 2003-July 2012, Chair of Department of Political Science, UMass-Dartmouth

 

·       May 2007- May 2010, President, Faculty Senate of UMass-Dartmouth

 

Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
University of Connecticut
PhD Political Science 1997
University of Toronto
M.Sc. Politics of Developing Areas 1988
Gettysburg College
Licenciate Political Science 1987