David Mednicoff
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Honors Program Director, Social Thought and Political Economy Program

Address:
Center for Public Policy & Administration
120 Gordon Hall
418 North Pleasant Street
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA 01002-1735

Phone: (413) 545-3536
Email: mednic@legal.umass.edu

Ph.D. in Political Science: Harvard University
J.D., Harvard University Law School (Honors)
A.M., Political Science, Harvard University
A.B., Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Middle Eastern politics, law and public policy; US foreign policy; international and comparative law and politics; human rights; globalization theory

David Mednicoff is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts -- Amherst. His areas of expertise include Middle Eastern law and politics, international law, human rights, globalization studies and comparative public policy.

Prof. Mednicoff's publications and ongoing research deal broadly with interdisciplinary connections between legal and political ideas and institutions at the national and transnational levels, particularly as these relate to current policy issues in the Middle East. He is currently completing two book manuscripts, the first on the endurance of ruling monarchies in contemporary politics, and the second on the politics of the rule of law, democratization and US foreign policy in five Arab societies. He has been invited to present his work at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the US Department of State, the Saudi Arabia Institute of Diplomatic Studies, and Georgetown, Harvard and Stanford Universities, among other places.

Prof. Mednicoff's teaching honors include a university-wide Lilly Teaching Fellowship for promising junior faculty, the U. Mass. College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award, and a national prize for innovative teaching related to the US after 9/11/01. Prof. Mednicoff was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in law in Qatar in 2006-7, where he taught legal and political philosophy at Qatar University. He is a Research Fellow in the Dubai Initiative (see profile) at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, a program that links researchers at Harvard and the Dubai School of Government who are engaged in interdisciplinary work on policy issues in the contemporary Middle East.