As associate dean for academic programs and advising, John Bader strives to help Krieger School students explore their academic interests and make the most of their undergraduate experience.

He works closely with students from the time they are freshmen, encouraging them to develop solid research and study skills and find a major that’s the “best fit.” A former Fulbright scholar whose research took him to India, Bader also guides students in pursuing prestigious grants and fellowships—with great success. This year once again proved a banner year for fellowship recipients. Seven Krieger School students and recent graduates were selected to study abroad as Fulbright Scholars, and an eighth earned a similarly prestigious scholarship known as the DAAD from the German Academic Exchange Service. In addition, three Krieger School undergraduates earned merit-based Goldwater Scholarships from the Goldwater Foundation and a Krieger School junior was named a 2006 Truman Scholar, one of just 75 students nationwide.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins in 2001 as assistant dean for academic advising, Bader was policy director for the successful Jon S. Corzine for U.S. Senate 2000 campaign in New Jersey and from 1994 to 2000 was director for Washington programs and an assistant professor of political science at the UCLA Center for American Politics and Public Policy in Washington, D.C. Bader earned his bachelor’s degree in history in 1985 from Yale (where he sang with the university’s world renowned a cappella group, the Whiffenpoofs) and his PhD in political science from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994.

John Bader Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Advising

John Bader
Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Advising