Profile: PA Professor Jack Corbett

Contact Information
Email: corbettj@pdx.edu
Office: Urban 670G
Telephone: 503 725 8226
Fax: 503 725 8250

Background

Professor Corbett holds a B.A. from Allegheny College and a Ph.D. in political sciencefrom Stanford University. Twice a Fulbright senior lecturer in Mexico,in 2005 Jack was Fulbright Distinguished Professor of North AmericanStudies at the University of Alberta. He has been a visiting scientistat the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado,and a Rotary International Professor in Mexico. Jack has long-termresearch interests in the fields of international migration and incommunity-based management of natural and cultural resources.

Jack has an extensive record of academic andprofessional service across the Western Hemisphere, having worked fromthe Yukon in Canada to Argentina and Chile in South America. He isexecutive director of the Instituto Welte de Estudios Oaxaqueños, asocial science research center in Oaxaca, Mexico. Jack has served asinterpreter for academic, professional, and government delegations onboth sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. In addition he has collaboratedin the creation of working agreements between the United States andMexico in the field of cultural resources protection and heritagemanagement.

Several times yearly Jack coordinates intensive fieldcourses on social and/or environmental policy in Canada and Mexico forPortland State students and community professionals, providing directcontact with actors and stakeholders in  arenas as diverse ashealthcare, human service delivery, migration, and administration ofjustice. Students participating in field courses engage practitionersand policy issues in ways they could not imagine on campus. To datemore than seven hundred have had the opportunity for direct experiencein international settings.