KC Johnson

I am from Higgins Beach, in Scarborough, Maine, six miles south of Portland. After spending five years as track announcer at Scarborough Downs, I left to study fulltime in graduate school, where my advisor was Akira Iriye. My B.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1993) come from Harvard, my M.A. from the University of Chicago (1989). Before coming to Brooklyn, I taught at Arizona State and Williams; I also have served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and at Tel Aviv University, as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities.

Seminar Schedule

• “Five Best Books,” Wall Street Journal

Session One: Turkey

Session Two: Israel

• Jeffrey Goldberg, “Israel and Iran Questions“

Session Three: Iran

Session Four: Gulf States

• Asher Orkaby, “A Passing Generation of Yemeni Politics“

Session Five: North Africa

Session Six: International Terrorism