Daniel Brumberg
Senior Fellow (1998-1999)

Areas of Specialization
Middle East; Africa; South Asia; Indonesia; Democracy building; Ethnic conflict; Islam; Conflict resolution

Project Focus
Reclaiming the Agenda: Power Sharing in Divided Societies of the Islamic World

Background
Daniel Brumberg is assistant professor of government at Georgetown University, where he received a Mellon Junior Faculty Award in 1996 and where he is working on a book on ideological change in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He also chairs the Foundation of Democratization and Political Change in the Middle East, a nonprofit organization that encourages research and debate on democratic reform in the Middle East. Brumberg has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a Social Science Research Council Overseas Award and a research grant from the Earhart Foundation. He was a visiting fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in 1997 and at the Carter Center in 1991-92. Brumberg held a series of teaching and research positions at the University of Chicago and Emory University in 1990-93. While at Chicago, he served as an adviser to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' project on fundamentalisms. A member of the editorial board of the Journal of Democracy, Brumberg is the author of Ethnicity, Pluralism and Democracy: A Critical Reader, which was published in Arabic by Dar Al Saqi Press, as well as of several journal articles on Middle East issues and a report on Islam and democracy for the U.S. Agency for International Development. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago.

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