Prof. Denis Sullivan

Denis J. Sullivan (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, where he also is Director of the International Affairs Program and Director of the Middle East Center for Peace, Culture, and Development. Prof. Sullivan formerly served as Chair of Political Science at Northeastern (2001-2003).

Dr. Sullivan established the "Dialogue of Civilizations Program" in 1998, beginning with the Egypt Seminar. The "Dialogues" now include student-to-student exchanges and independent field research in Egypt, China, Greece, Spain, Turkey, South Africa, Niger, Thailand, Mexico, Cyprus, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine, and more.

Since 1987, Dr. Sullivan has been an Affiliate in Research at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. In 2002 and 2003, he was the Director of the Institute in Governance, Public Policy, and Civil Society in Toledo, Spain.

Prof. Sullivan's most recent books are The World Bank and the Palestinian NGO Project: From Service Delivery to Sustainable Development (Jerusalem: PASSIA, 2001); and Islam in Contemporary Egypt: Civil Society vs. the State, with Sana Abed-Kotob (Boulder: L. Rienner, 1999). Recent articles and chapters include: "Egypt" in Countries at the Crossroads: A Survey of Democratic Governance (A Freedom House Publication, 2005); "The U.S.-Egypt Partnership: Are Human Rights Included?" in Human Rights Implementation Project , (Institute of Peace, 2004); and "The Struggle for Egypt's Future," Current History, January 2003.

Dr. Sullivan is a consultant to the U.S. State Department on Islam and the Middle East as well as to the World Bank on its Palestinian NGO Project. He works with K-12 teachers on professional development and teacher training on introducing Middle East studies in primary and secondary schools.

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