| Dr. Marvin Weinbaum
Dr. Marvin G. Weinbaum is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and served as analyst for Pakistan and Afghanistan in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 1999 to 2003. He is currently a scholar-in-residence and Director of the Pakistan Studies Center at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C.
Professor Weinbaum earned his doctorate from Columbia University in 1965, and he joined the Illinois faculty in the same year. At Illinois, he served for fifteen years as the director of the Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr. Weinbaum was awarded Fulbright Research Fellowships for Egypt in 1981–82 and Afghanistan in 1989–90. After retiring at Illinois, Professor Weinbaum has held adjunct professorships at Georgetown and George Washington Universities, and has lectured regularly at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute. At the State Department he was a recipient of its Superior Honors Award.
He is the author or editor of six books, including South Asia Approaches the Millennium: Re-examining National Security, co-edited with Chetan Kumar in 1995, and Afghanistan and Pakistan: Resistance and Reconstruction in 1994. Dr. Weinbaum has also written nearly 100 book chapters and professional journal articles, mostly about Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, but also on Egypt and Turkey.
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