Henry, Clement M.

Professor of Government, University of Texas; Austin, Texas Clement M. Henry specializes in the Middle East and North Africa at the University of Texas, Austin, where he hasresearched political parties, the engineering profession, and financial institutions. He has lived over 12 years in the field and taught in Algiers, Beirut, Cairo, and Rabat. From 1973 to 1980, he taught at the University of Michigan. Henry received his A.B., summa cum laude, and his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University, and his MBA from the University of Michigan. His most recent work, co-edited and partly co-authored with Rodney Wilson, is The Politics of Islamic Finance (Edinburgh University Press, 2004, reprinted by Oxford University Press,Pakistan, 2005). With Robert Springborg, he co-authored Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2001). He has written, co-authored, and co-edited eleven books, and contributed over three dozen articles to other publications, including the American Political Science Review. In July 1999, Henry guest-edited a special double issue of the Thunderbird International Business Review on Islamic banking.