Sherman W. Garnett
Sherman W. Garnett is the Dean of James Madison College at Michigan State University (MSU), serving in this position since 1999. Before that, he was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, specializing in the foreign and security policies of Russia, Ukraine and other states of the former USSR. He is the author or co-author of Keystone in the Arch: Ukraine in the New Political Geography of Central and Eastern Europe(1997) and several other volumes. He has published widely in such national and international publications as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Nezavisimaya gazeta, Rzeczpospolita and IISS Strategic Survey. From 1983 to 1994, Dr. Garnett worked in a variety of positions in the US Government, specializing in arms control and the former USSR, ending his service as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia. Dr. Garnett received his Ph.D. in Russian Literature from the University of Michigan in 1982. He has an MA in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University and a BA in Political Philosophy from James Madison College at Michigan State University.
