Ken Jowitt has been appointed the Pres and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Jowitt, who is also the Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, has been affiliated with Hoover since 1998.
The appointment was announced by Hoover Institution director John Raisian. "Ken Jowitt is a superb thinker and communicator of ideas defining a free society, thereby representing an exceptional appointment for the Hoover Institution. His articulation of perspectives in the new era of a post-Cold-War world is provocative and instructive," Raisian said.
Pres and Maurine Hotchkis are residents of Santa Barbara, California. Mr. Hotchkis is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of the real estate development firm Bixby Ranch Company in Seal Beach, California. He also is a trustee of the Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundation, a member of the Haas School of Business Advisory Board at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a former trustee of the University of California, Berkeley, Foundation. He earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from University of California, Berkeley, where he was honored in 1997 with a Distinguished Service Award. They have endowed the Hotchkis Professorship in History at the University of California, Berkeley.
"Our active involvement with the University of California at Berkeley has given us the chance to follow Ken Jowitt's career for many years. We believe he is an outstanding addition to the community of fellows at the Hoover Institution and we are pleased to be able to support his work at Hoover," Mr. and Mrs. Hotchkis said.
"I consider it both a compliment and responsibility to be named the first Pres and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow at Hoover," Jowitt said. "Pres and Maurine and I share the intellectual benefits from our joint association with the Hoover Institution at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley."
Jowitt received his bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1962 and his master's degree and doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963 and 1970, respectively. The University of California Press published his doctoral thesis, Revolutionary Breakthroughs and National Development: The Case of Romania, in 1971.
Jowitt has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1968. In 1983, he won the University Distinguished Teaching Award and was Dean of Freshman and Sophomore Studies from 1983 to 1986.
In 1995, he was named the Robson Professor of Political Science, and received the first Distinguished Teaching Award from the Division of Social Sciences.
In 1997, he delivered the Presidential Address at Whitman College, and the Princeton University Public Lectures. In 1998, Jowitt was the Jean Monnet Visiting Scholar at the European University in Florence. Jowitt has spoken at the Commonwealth Club, the World Presidents Organization, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and appears occasionally on the CNBC program Hardball.
