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Augustus Richard Norton

 
     
 
Augustus Richard Norton is a Professor in the Departments of International Relations and Anthropology at Boston University.

He is a contributing editor to Current History, and co-editor (with Dale Eickelman) of the Princeton University Press Muslim Politics series.  He headed the Ford Foundation-funded "Civil Society in the Middle East" Program at New York University in the 1990s, which was co-chaired by Farhad Kazemi.

Norton is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association; and he is also co-founder of the Conference Group on the Middle East, and co-founder, in 2002, of the Action Group of Concerned Middle East Scholars, a group based in Boston and Cambridge.

In 1999-2000 Norton was Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. He was also named Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Islamic Studies for 1999-2000, where he continues to serve as an Academic Board Member.
 
 

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Link: http://www.bu.edu/ir/faculty/norton.html
 
Last Updated: Jul 18, 2008


 
 

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