Michael Barkun

Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1965

Professor Barkun was selected the 2003 Distinguished Scholar by the Communal Studies Association. The award acknowledges Barkun's career of outstanding contributions to the field.

David Bennett

Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1963

Mehrzad Boroujerdi

Associate Professor, Political Science
Ph.D. American University

Dr. Mehrzad Boroujerdi is Associate Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs where he also serves as the Founding Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program and Co-Director of the Religion, Media and International Relations Program. Professor Boroujerdi received his BA in Political Science and Sociology from Boston University, and his Ph.D. in International Relations from the American University in Washington, D.C. His doctoral dissertation won the Foundation for Iranian Studies’ 1990 award for best Dissertation in the Field of Iranian Studies. From 1990 to 1992 he was respectively a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Boroujerdi was the 1997-98 recipient of the Maxwell School's Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for outstanding teaching, research, and service by a junior faculty member.

Norman Kutcher

Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., Yale University, 1991

Deborah Pellow

Professor, Anthropology
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1974

Deborah Pellow is a Professor of Anthropology at Maxwell whose research focuses on cultural and sub-cultural groups living in urban areas of plural society under conditions of social change. She has particular interest in West Africa, particularly Ghana and northern Nigeria, and in issues of urbanization, gender, ethnicity, space and place, and in American and world politics. Professor Pellow has also done research in Shanghai, China, while a visiting professor of history at Fudan University, and in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan, while a Fulbright lecturer. She is the author of four books and numerous articles. Professor Pellow completed her Ph.D. at Northwestern in 1974 with a dissertation titled Women in Accra: Options for Autonomy. Prior to that, she completed an MA in Anthropology at Northwestern University and a BA in Anthropology at U Penn. Between degrees, she worked as an Applied Anthropologist at Council for Community Services, in Metropolitan Chicago.

Stephen S. Webb

Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1965