Experience

• Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Former Chairman of the Political Science Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago
• Visiting professor at several universities including Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey The Hebrew University in Jersualem, and the University of Chicago
• Associate member at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago
• Authored and co-authored several books on Middle East politics and Turkey, including Turkey: The Politics of Authority, Democracy, and Development (1984), and Political Parties of the Middle East (1994)

Education

• PhD, University of Chicago, 1958
• MA, University of Chicago, 1952
• PhB, University of Chicago, 1949

Country Expertise

• Israel
• Turkey

Issue Expertise

• Political Islam
• Middle East Affairs
• Elections
• Democratization
• Arab-Israeli Relations