Fellows in Residence
Dr. Augustus Richard Norton
Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Residence
Professor of International Relations and Cultural Anthropology
at Boston University
March 21, 2006
Professor Norton is a professor of International Relations and Cultural Anthropology at Boston University and is an internationally-known expert in the politics, cultures, and religions of the Middle East. He is a frequent analyst for CNN and other news networks, and is widely quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and newspapers around the globe. His current research centers on reform strategies of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and the renewal of reformist Muslim thought.
On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 6:30 pm, Norton delivered a public lecture, “Between Ideology and Pragmatism: Islamists in Politics” in Burgiss Theater at Furman University. On Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 7:30 pm, he delivered a second lecture on “America in the Minds of Muslims” at the Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference Center, Furman University.
About Professor Norton
Norton’s books include Amal and the Shi’a: Struggle for the Soul of Lebanon, The International Relations of the PLO (senior editor),Political Tides in the Arab World (co-author), UN Peacekeepers (co-author), Security in the Middle East: New Perspectives (in Arabic) and the two volume collection Civil Society in the Middle East. His recent articles have appeared in Current History, Foreign Policy, Journal of Palestine Studies, Middle East Journal, New Perspective Quarterly, and Political Anthropology, in addition to numerous articles in leading newspapers.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Middle East Studies Association, the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, the American Political Science Association, the Academic Board of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and he is a co-founder of the Conference Group on the Middle East. Norton earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Miami; his Ph.D., from the University of Chicago.