Name:	David Scobey
Title:	Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Professor of Community Partnerships and Director
Department:	Harward Center for Community Partnerships
Organization:	Bates College
Phone:	(207) 786-6443
Fax:	(207) 786-8282
Email:	dscobey [a] bates.edu
Address:	161-163 Wood Street Lewiston, ME 04240

Brief Biography:
David Scobey is the Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Professor of Community Partnerships and the inaugural Director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Until 2005 he was Associate Professor of Architecture in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Director of the Arts of Citizenship Program at the University of Michigan. Scobey holds a doctorate from Yale's Program in American Studies; a historian of 19th-century U.S. cultural and urban history, he is the author of Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape (Temple University Press, 2002). As Director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, Scobey is charged with coordinating Bates College's community-engagement initiatives and integrating them into the College's liberal-arts mission. Scobey brings to Bates a decade of work in the national effort for academic civic engagement. In 1997, he founded the University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship Program to foster the role of the arts, humanities, and design in civic life. He serves on the national advisory committees for Project Pericles and chairs the National Advisory Board of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. His interests and areas of expertise in academic civic and community engagement includes: civic engagement in the arts and humanities; civic engagement in liberal arts education; and current trends in the national movement for academic civic engagement.

Areas of Expertise