University Times

Alberta Sbragia, professor of political science and director of Pitt’s Center for Western European Studies and of the European Union Center of Excellence here, has been named the inaugural holder of the Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg University Chair.

Nordenberg announced the appointment June 23.

Sbragia joined Pitt’s faculty in 1974, the same year she received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.

In 1984 she was named director of the Center for West European Studies. Four years later, she also was named director of Pitt’s European Union Center.