When it comes to Dartmouth being a good neighbor, how convinced are we that Dartmouth is there? The Montgomery Fellows Program has invited three prominent scholars active in their communities and in their lives as researchers to help us assess how Dartmouth is doing as a neighbor and how we might do better. We will be inviting other leaders and academics from around the area as well as students and faculty across the four schools to join with the MFP in this term-long evaluation and exploration of what it means to be a good neighbor.
Manuel Pastor is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, where he also currently directs USC’s Equity Research Institute. Pastor’s research has generally focused on issues of the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities – and the social movements seeking to change those realities.
Ira Harkavy is the founder and Barbara and Edward Netter Director of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania. He teaches in history, urban studies, and Africana studies, as well as in the Graduate School of Education. Harkavy has written and lectured widely on the history and current practice of urban university-community-school partnerships and the democratic and civic missions of higher education.
Laura Gottlieb is Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she studies how healthcare systems can better identify and intervene on social adversity to improve health. She is the founding co-director of the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network, a national research institute launched in 2016. Dr. Gottlieb’s research has explored the ethical challenges of integration, as well as its key building blocks, including the technology tools, workforce, policies, and funding mechanisms necessary to deliver social care in a wide range of healthcare settings.