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Kazee named vice president for academic affairs and dean
Thomas Kazee, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of the South, will become the school's new vice president for academic affairs and dean on July 1.
Kazee will replace A.V. Huff, who will retire at the end of the current academic year. Kazee has been dean of the College at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., since 1999, where he manages the college's 130-member faculty and directs the academic curriculum.
Prior to that, he taught in the political science department at Davidson College for 18 years, serving as chair of the department for the last 10 years of his tenure. He has also taught at Tulane University and Wilmington College.
"I'm very excited about joining an institution and a faculty that is held in such high regard," says Kazee. "I look forward to working with my faculty colleagues to find ways of enhancing Furman's existing strengths and to explore innovative approaches to challenges facing the institution in the years ahead."
In 1987-88, he received a Congressional Fellowship from the American Political Science Association to serve in Washington as a policy analyst in the U.S. House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, and as a legislative aide in the office of South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle.
His areas of specialty are American politics, American institutions, Congress, the presidency, public opinion, media and Southern politics. The author of numerous journal articles and book reviews, Kazee is editor of Who Runs for Congress: Ambition, Context and Candidate Emergency. He has another book, Political Trust and American Politics, under contract to Georgetown University Press.
He graduated in 1974 from Baldwin-Wallace College and received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University.
Kazee and his wife, Sharon, have two children: Nicole, a 2000 graduate of Wake Forest and Geoffrey, a junior at Lynchburg College. Kazee enjoys reading, running and golf.