Daniel Brumberg is the Co-Founder and former Director of Democracy and Governance MA Program at Georgetown University and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Center. He is also a co-creator of Georgetown University's In Your Shoes project, an interdisciplinary initiative that uses theater and performance to foster dialogue across the ideological divide. Along with his colleagues Derek Goldman, Rabbi Rachel Gartner and Ijeoma Njka, in 2022 he was awarded Georgetown University's Prize for Innovation in Teaching. Inspired by this work, Professor Brumberg now teaches comparative courses on political polarization and populism and also works with US grassroots dialogue organizations such as Braver Angels .From 2008 through 2015 he also served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and as a Special Adviser at the United States Institute of Peace. In addition to his position at Georgetown, he has served as Visiting Professor at Sciences Po in Paris and is currently serving as a visiting professor and adviser to several Tunisian universities. Prior to coming to Georgetown University he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University, a Visiting Fellow in the Middle East Program in the Jimmy Carter Center, and a Lecturer at the University of Chicago's Social Science Masters Program. Brumberg has published articles on political, social and economic change in the Middle East and wider Muslim World and on US democracy promotion. His articles have appeared in leading print and on-line journals including the Journal of Democracy, foreignpolicy.com and respoonsiblestatecraf t. His books include Reinventing Khomeini, The Struggle for Reform in Iran, (University of Chicago Press) and Identity and Reform in the Muslim World, Challenges for US Engagement (USIP Press), co-edited with Dinah Shehata, and most recently, Power and Political Change in Iran, co-edited with Farideh Farhi, published by Indiana University Press. Brumberg has served as a consultant to the US Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development focusing on human rights, security sector reform, and governance issues in the Arab world. He has lived or conducted field research in France, Morocco,Iran, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Kuwait, Indonesia and other countries. He speaks French and Arabic and lives in Washington DC with his wife Laurie and their two cats Mouna and Bisou. He is currently launching a book project examining the origins of American modernization theory during the fifties and sixties, provisionally entitled "A World Remade? Visions of Modernization in the Shadow of World War Two." In Spring 2025 he will be a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University's Doha, Qatar Campus.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Associate Professor, College - Department of Government