Welcome to my home page. My wife, Karen Lee Hackett, is a software program manager at Sun. My elder daughter, Rachel, doesn't believe in home pages. She graduated from Brown (magna cum laude said the proud father) and finished her M.Div at Union Theological Seminary in New York and is now working in East Africa.

Grace Elizabeth was born December 16, 1996. She cleverly learned to smile at an early age! Now that she is a very active elevent(!) year old, it is hard enough to keep up with her, let alone take any pictures. (Only her mom can keep up with her on rollerblades. And nothing can stop her on her bike. None of us can keep up with her desire to be a punk rock star!) She is in the Xs group (what the rest of the world calls the fifth grade) at the City and Country School in Greenwich Village. She loves the school, and loves studying mediaeval history and being a master sign maker. She is working on designing her own web page which soon will be available.

We moved to Greenwich Village in Sept. 2003 and have been having a wonderful time in the city (New York, New York, a helluva town ...). Here is our view east view (we see all three bridges, but this one just shows the Williamsburg Bridge) and north. Silver Towers doesn't look that bad and not everyone in the city has so much green and their own Picasso Sylvette.

I am professor (and, alas, chair) in the Department of Politics at NYU.

The best link to my current papers (and cv) is through my NYU home page.

Some useful professional links:

My email is nathaniel.beck@nyu.edu My physical location is 19 W. 4th St., New York, NY 10012. The phone which sometimes reaches me (email is much better!) is (212)998-8535; fax number is (646)349-3092.


Last modified: March 4, 2007