LEWISTON – David M. Scobey, a professor of architecture at the University of Michigan, has been named director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships and Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Professor of Community Partnerships at Bates College.

Jill N. Reich, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Bates, said a series of conversations on campus in 2002-2003 helped to shape ideas of how a center might best connect the academic mission of the college with local, national, and international partners.

A subsequent search of two years has resulted in the selection of Scobey.

Scobey comes to Bates from the University of Michigan, where he is associate professor of architecture in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and director of the Arts of Citizenship Program.

He graduated from Yale University with a doctorate in American studies.

He was a Rhodes Scholar, a senior research fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, and the recipient of many other fellowships and honors.

Scobey is also a nationally recognized leader in the theory and practice of community-based learning, Reich said. Arts of Citizenship, which Scobey founded in 1998 and has led since, has brought together faculty, students and community partners in more than 30 collaborative projects from Detroit to Battle Creek involving theater, history, the visual arts, urban design, and other areas.

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