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Biography
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Stephen Zunes
Professor: Politics | International Studies
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Stephen Zunes has been at USF since 1995, teaching courses on the politics
of Middle East and other regions, nonviolence, conflict resolution, and
globalization for the Politics department, the International Studies major, and
the Peace & Justice Studies minor, as well as the Middle East Studies minor,
for which he serves as advisor. He received his B.A. from Oberlin
College, his M.A. from Temple University,
and his Ph.D. from Cornell
University. Prior to coming to USF, Dr. Zunes served on
the faculty at Ithaca College, Whitman
College and the University of Puget Sound.
Professor Zunes serves as a writer and senior analyst for Foreign Policy in
Focus, an associate editor for Peace
Review, and the chair of the board of academic advisors for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
A prominent specialist on U.S. Middle East policy, Professor Zunes has
presented numerous lectures and conference papers in the United States
and over a dozen foreign countries. He has traveled frequently to the Middle East and other conflict regions, meeting with
prominent government officials, scholars and dissidents. He has served as a
political analyst for local, national, and international radio and television,
and is a columnist for the National
Catholic Reporter and CommonDreams.org. He has published scores of articles
in academic journals, anthologies, magazines, and newspaper op-ed pages on such
topics as U.S.
foreign policy, Middle Eastern politics, Latin American politics, African
politics, human rights, arms control, social movements and nonviolent action.
He is the co-editor of Nonviolent Social
Movements (Blackwell, 1999) and Consistently
Opposing Killing (Praeger, 2008) and the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism
(Common Courage, 2003) and the forthcoming Western Sahara: Nationalism, Conflict, and International
Accountability (Syracuse University Press).
For more biographical information and to access a variety of Professor
Zunes' publications, please visit http://www.stephenzunes.org/ .
Contact Information:
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 422-6981
Fax: (415) 422-2101
Email: zunes@usfca.edu
Office: University Center, 536
Office Hours: M 11:15am-12pm & 4:30-6pm, W 11:15am-12:15pm, and by appointment
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