Remembering Kenneth Prewitt

Political scientist and public servant Kenneth “Ken” Prewitt, the AAPSS’s 2001 Harold Lasswell Fellow and its president from 2015 to 2021, passed away on June 5. Prewitt, 90, was most recently Carnegie Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Born in 1936 in Alton, Illinois, Prewitt received his …