Emad El-Din Shahin is the Dean of the College of Islamic Studies (CIS), HBKU. Before joining CIS, he was a visiting professor of Political Science at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics.
Previously, Shahin was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (April 2014- March 15), public policy scholar at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (February- August 2014). He was the Henry R. Luce Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (2009-2012). He was visiting Associate Professor in the department of Government at Harvard University (2006-2009), faculty affiliate with the Kennedy School of Government, and visiting scholar in the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School (2006-2007).
Shahin holds a Ph.D. (1989) from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, an M.A (1983) and a BA (1980) from the American University in Cairo. He has taught in leading universities in the United States including Harvard, Notre Dame, Georgetown, George Washington, and Boston University. His research and teaching interests focus on and Politics, Comparative Politics, Democracy and Political Reform in societies. Shahin was nominated two years in a row for the Harvard University Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, May 2007, and May 2008; and is the recipient of the AUC Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award for the Academic Year 2001-2002.
