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Michael W. Suleiman <suleiman@ksu.edu> Kansas State University arab-american studies |
| Address: | department of political science 226 waters hall kansas state university manhattan, Kansas 66506 United States |
| Secondary Phone: | 785-532-6842 |
| Fax Number: | 785-532-2339 |
| Web Page: | http://www.ksu.edu/polsci |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Mideast-Politics |
| Interests: | American History / Studies Ethnic History / Studies |
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Bio: Michael W. Suleiman is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Kansas State University. He received his B.A. degree from Bradley University in 1960, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1962 and 1965 respectively. Since 1965, he has been on the faculty of the Political Science Department at Kansas State University, where he was named University Distinguished Professor in 1990, having been full professor since 1972, and where he served as Department Head (1975-1982). Also at Kansas State, he is a faculty member in the American Ethnic Studies Program (AESP) and has served as a member of the Governance board of AESP (1987-1989). He also received the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Member Award (1987), and was selected as a Mid-America State Universities Association Honor Lecturer (1986-1987). Dr. Suleiman has received several research awards, including an Institute for Advanced Study fellowship, Princeton, NJ (1994-95) to write about Arabs in the U.S.; a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant (1989-1991) to do research on Arab Americans; a CIES-Islamic Civilization grant (1984) to do research in Tunisia; Fulbright Hayes Fellowships (Summers 1993, 1991 and 1983-84) to conduct research in Egypt and Morocco respectively; an American Research Center in Egypt Fellowship (1972-73) for research in Egypt; and a Ford Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship (1969-70). Professor Suleiman has lectured widely both in the United States and abroad to university, government, business and community groups. He is the author of over seventy scholarly publications on comparative and international politics of the Middle East as well as American-Arab relations, and the Arab-American community, including: Political Parties in Lebanon (1967); American Images of Middle East Peoples: Impact of the High School (1977); The Arabs in the Mind of America (1988); Arab Americans: Continuity and Change (1989), co-editor and co-author; U.S. Policy on Palestine from Wilson to Clinton (1995), editor and co-author; and Arabs in America: Building a New Future (1999), editor and co-author. Dr. Suleiman is co-editor (with John Entelis) of the Westview Press Series on "State, Culture and Society in Arab North Africa" (1989- ). Dr. Suleiman is a member of several prestigious bodies including the Editorial Boards of five journals dealing with the Middle East, namely International Journal of Middle East Studies (1982-88), Arab Studies Quarterly, Journal of Arab Affairs(1981-93), The Maghreb Review, Arab Journal of International Studies (1987-92), and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of Arab-American University Graduates, AAUG (President, 1977); Middle East Studies Association of North America, MESA (1980-82), and Committee member (1972-75) and Chair (1975-78) of the MESA Committee on Pre-Collegiate Education; the American Institute of Maghribi Studies, AIMS (1985-88); and the American Research Center in Egypt, ARCE (1991-94, 1994-97). Professor Suleiman has acted as a consultant, commentator, adviser or reviewer for numerous groups including the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of International Education, National Science Foundation, League of Arab States, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Suleiman has been interviewed widely and frequently in the press both in the U.S. and abroad, including PBS, CBS TV, Washington Post, C-Span, Cable News Network (CNN) TV and National Public Radio (NPR), where he has had over thirty (30) interviews. |
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