Peter C. Sederberg is the Special Assistant to the Provost for Undergraduate Initiatives. He focuses on strategic initiatives that cut across academic colleges and between the Divisions of Academic Affairs and Campus Life, in particular first and second year living/learning communities, engaged learning initiatives, and the assessment of learning outcomes.

Dr. Sederberg earned his BA in Economics from the University of Minnesota and his MA and PhD in Political Science from The Johns Hopkins University. Before joining the Emory Community, Dr. Sederberg taught at Wellesley College and the University of South Carolina. While at the University of South Carolina, he helped design and implement the South Carolina Honors College, and he served as its second dean from 1994 to 2005.

Dr. Sederberg's publications include seven books and 30 refereed articles and book chapters, along with dozens of reviews and essays. His research areas include problems of political violence and revolutionary change, political philosophy and the philosophy of inquiry, and global security. His work also addresses issues of political and social development, and he has conducted research in three African countries (Ghana, Somalia, and South Africa).

As dean of the Honors College, Dr. Sederberg wrote a number of articles concerned with curriculum development as well as the transformation of the contemporary research university. He recently contributed three chapters to his forthcoming edited monograph, The Honors College Phenomenon (2008).

Dr. Sederberg is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded an NDEA Fellowship and a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to pursue his graduate studies He has received grants from the Hewlett Foundation and the National Science Foundation to support undergraduate educational initiatives. His contributions were recognized at the University South Carolina through the Educational Foundation Award for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (1986) and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Fostering Undergraduate Research (2007).

Dr. Sederberg's Vita (short version)