Joshua Landis
Joshua Landis is the Sandra Mackey Chair and Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and the Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He has helped raise over one million dollars for a new chair in Iranian studies, and helped bring the government funded Arabic Flagship Program to OU. He also writes and manages Syria Comment, a daily newsletter on Syrian politics that attracts over 100,000 readers a month and is widely read by officials in Washington, Europe and Syria. Dr. Landis is an academic specializing in the Middle East and Syria. He travels frequently to Washington DC to consult with government agencies and speak at think tanks. He has received three Fulbright grants to support his research in Syria and won numerous prizes for his teaching. He is past President of the Syrian Studies Association.
Joshua Landis Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and the Farzaneh Family Center, Sandra Mackey Chair
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Lecturer, Dept. Near Eastern Studies
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Visiting Instructor, Middle East History
Academic History
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Ph.D., Near East Studies
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M.A., Middle East Studies
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B.A., European History & French Literature
RECOGNITIONS
2008 OU Foundation Excellence Teaching Award
2005 Fulbright Senior Research Award
1997 M.H. Kerr Dissertation Prize, Middle East Studies Association
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Landis publishes frequently in policy journals such as Foreign Affairs, Middle East Policy and Foreign Policy.
He is a frequent analyst on TV and radio, appearing recently on the PBS NewsHour, the Charlie Rose Show, NPR, and BBC.
He has been quoted in the New York Times, Le Monde, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, and Time Magazine.
He has spoken at the Woodrow Wilson Institute, Brookings Institute, USIP, Middle East Institute, and Council on Foreign Relations.
He has received numerous grants from the Fulbright program, Social Science Research Council, and other prestigious foundations to support his research.