Gordon Smith has resigned his position as dean of USC's Graduate School and associate provost to become director of the University's Richard L. Walker Institute of International Studies.
Smith, who has served in the provost's office since 2001, will begin his new duties Aug. 16.
Before being named dean of the Graduate School and associate provost, Smith was an associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts. He is a political science professor and a leading authority on Russian politics and law.
Smith has written or edited eight books, including State-Building in Russia and Reforming the Russian Legal System. He was on the National Advisory Board of the Rule of Law Consortium, a project designed to assist Russians in reforming their legal system, and he has assisted with the introduction of jury trials in Russia, in conjunction with the American Bar Association.
Smith has been a fellow of the Harvard University Russian Research Center, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Smithsonian Institution and a visiting scholar at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of Birmingham University in England and the Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. His research has been funded by the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, the Earhart Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Toyota Foundation.
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