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Security and Migration in the Middle East & North Africa – Dr. Mark Miller
Date: April 1, 2009
Location: 4127 Sennott Square (above Panera) Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. The Ridgway Middle East Research Group is proud to present Dr. Mark Miller as the first guest lecturer in our series: Issues of Security in the Middle East. The topic of Dr. Miller’s lecture will be focused on Security and Migration in the Middle East & North Africa and the effects large-scale movements of populations have on international security. Mark J. Miller graduated from the University of Wisconsin where he was Phi Beta Kappa and wrote a senior honors thesis on the politics of Palestinian resistance. He spent his junior year at Aix-en-Provence and later received a French government scholarship for dissertation research on immigrant political participation in Western Europe at L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Miller has lectured on European migration developments at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. He has also contributed to proceedings of the National Intelligence Council. From 2003 to 2005 and again in 2009, Miller served as academic co-director of US Department of State-funded institutes on US foreign and national security policy. In 2004, he became the Emma Smith Morris professor and in 2005, received the Arts and Sciences research award. In 2007, he received the Francis X. Alison award, the highest honor accorded faculty at the University of Delaware. Visit the Ridgway Center's Web site for additional information (www.ridgway.pitt.edu), or contact Beverly Brizzi at 412-624-7884 or brizzi@gspia.pitt.edu. The Ridgway Middle East Research Group was established in the fall of 2008, and focuses on issues of security in the Middle East. The group is currently researching the Integration of Hezbollah in the Lebanese Military and its effects of stability in the region. If you are interested in joining the Middle East Research Group contact Ramzi Asmar at raa63@pitt.edu. This event is open to all GSPIA students and faculty. |
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