Gilliam Named Dean of Public Affairs at UCLA
June 3 — FrameWorks Senior Fellow Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Ph.D., has been named dean of the UCLA School of Public Affairs, effective September 1, 2008, pending approval by the UC Regents. Frank has worked with the FrameWorks Institute since its founding in 1999, serves as project director for its Project on Framing Race in America, and is the author of numerous papers and reports on FrameWorks' research findings.
A member of UCLA's political science faculty for more than two decades, Frank has served since 2002 as UCLA's (and UC's) first-ever associate vice chancellor of community partnerships. In that role, he has built a strong program of academic civic engagement through the Center for Community Partnerships (UCLA in L.A). He is also the founding director of the Center for Communications and Community at UCLA.
Throughout his UCLA tenure, Frank has built important strategic alliances within the campus and with civic and corporate leaders. He has also maintained strong ties to the philanthropic community, both locally and nationally. He has served on many boards and committees and given numerous lectures and presentations. He is a senior fellow of the FrameWorks Institute and a political analyst for KTLA TV.
In addition to UCLA, Frank has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Grinnell College and the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania. His research areas include race and electoral politics, urban politics and development, and the impact of strategic communications on public policy preferences. He has published extensively and is the author of Farther to Go: Readings and Cases in African-American Politics.
Frank holds a bachelor's degree from Drake University and a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.
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