Dr. Nathan Brown (CASA ’84)
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
George Washington University
United States
Dr. Nathan Brown is a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University (GW) and a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Brown received his BA in political science from the University of Chicago and his MA and PhD in politics and Near Eastern studies from Princeton University. He is the author of nine books on Arab politics and governance, as well as editor of five books. Brown’s scholarship focuses on Islam and politics, Egypt, Palestine and Arab law and constitutionalism. He has served as a fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study in Germany; a Guggenheim fellow; a Carnegie scholar; a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Fulbright scholar. He has served as associate dean of GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, founded its Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, and received awards for teaching, research and mentoring. He has previously served as an advisor for the committee drafting the Palestinian constitution, USAID, the United Nations Development Program and several NGOs. During 2013 - 2015, he was president of the Middle East Studies Association, the academic association for scholars studying the region.