Projo Politics Blog

Following news that Darrell West, long the public face of polling and punditry at Brown University, is leaving on July 1 to become vice president of the Brookings Institution, the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the school announced that Marion Orr, a political science professor and expert on urban politics and education will be taking his place at Brown’s Taubman Center for Public Policy.

Orr, who received his doctorate at the University of Maryland, is currently the Fred Lippitt professor of public policy at Brown. Orr has taught courses and done research in urban politics, urban educational policy, African-American politics, and urban poverty.

Orr has written books and lectured frequently on urban politics and school reform and has won numerous awards for his research and writing. He previously taught at Duke University and has been a fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

--By Scott MacKay
Journal staff writer

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