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William F.S. Miles

09/05/23 - BOSTON, MA. - Northeastern professor of political science William Miles poses for a portrait on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. Photo by Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University

Professor of Political Science

A five-time Fulbright award recipient and author of a dozen solely authored books, Professor Miles teaches the undergraduate courses Comparative Politics, Religion and Politics, Music and Politics, and the Politics of Developing Nations; on the graduate level, courses on international development.  A former Peace Corps Volunteer, Professor Miles is fluent in French, Hausa and Bislama and conversational in Creole/Kreol and Hebrew.  Public radio, including NPR, has broadcast a dozen of his commentaries.

Project Websites:

African Borderlands Community Development (ABCD)

South Pacific Puzzle: Coping with Independence

Third World Views of the Holocaust

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Books 

Scholarly Journal Articles

Newspapers, Magazines and Literary Journals

  • Fulbright Global Scholar Award. Research grant for “Wooing Home Diasporas: Post-Pandemic Challenges for India, Israel, Morocco,” 2021-2023
  • American Academy for Jewish Research. Cross-Institutional Cooperative Grant, for Jews in Muslim and Shared Diasporic Lands 2019-2022
  • Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. Research grant to investigate Holocaust consciousness among emerging Jewish communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2017-2018, 2019-2020
  • Israel Institute Research Grant
  • Quebec Studies Program research grant (Government of Québec, Ministry of International Relations and Francophonie). “Francophone Sephardim in Montreal: Institutional, Diplomatic, and Demographic Trends,” 2009-10.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Stipend for electoral study of French Antilles, 2007.
  • Earhart Foundation Fellowship for book research support on comparative colonialism, 2006.
  • Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research grant (American Philosophical Society) for “Field Work in Upper Mekong,” 2005.
  • American Philosophical Society grant for research on “African Border Life at the Millennium,”awarded 2000.
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Center for Advanced Studies, nationally competitive Summer Seminar for Faculty, 2000.
  • Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Fellowship for Africa (Mauritius), 1996-7.
  • Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Fellowship for the Pacific Islands (New Caledonia, Vanuatu), 1991.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers, 1989.
  • American Institute of Indian Studies Professional Development Grant, 1987-8.
  • Fulbright Short-Term Research Grant for Nigeria, 1986.
  • International Security Studies Research Grant (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy), 1984.
  • Fulbright Research Fellowship for Nigeria, 1983-4.
  • Shell International Studies Research Fellowship, 1982-3.
  • Fletcher School Fellowship, 1981-2.
  • Fulbright-Hays French Government Teaching Assistantship for Martinique, 1980-1.
  • Peabody Fellowship for International Studies, 1979-80.

Related Schools & Departments

  • Education

    PhD, 1983
    The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

  • Contact

  • Address

    929 Renaissance Park
    360 Huntington Avenue
    Boston, MA 02115