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أستاذ والعميد
- Email: Denis_Sulivan@zu.ac.ae
- Telephone: +971 4 402 1576
- Address: Dubai Academic City, R-L1-27
Introduction
Prior to joining Zayed University as Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dr. Denis Sullivan spent the past 30 years at Northeastern University as a professor of political science and international affairs, with a specialization in the Middle East. Dean Sullivan received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Professor Sullivan is the author of dozens of journal articles, book chapters, policy briefs, blogs and encyclopedia entries plus a number of books, with special focus on Egypt, civil society, Islamism, and Egyptian-American security and economic relations. His current work focuses on the Syrian and Yemen civil wars and refugee crises, and on citizenship in the Middle East.
Dr. Sullivan was founding Director of Northeastern’s International Affairs Program, Director of the Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies, and founder of Northeastern’s Dialogue of Civilizations Program. For over 25 years, Dr. Sullivan has led academic and professional development programs to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Oman, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and Greece. He mentored numerous faculty members as they developed and implemented their own programs around the world. "Dialogues" are interdisciplinary study programs that enable students to pursue their own professional and personal interests through an intensive, rigorous, and practical experience, under the supervision and mentoring of a faculty member.
Dr. Sullivan has managed millions of USD in grants and awards from Fulbright-Hays, Rotary International, Center for Arabic Study Abroad, American Research Center in Egypt, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright Scholars Program, Social Science Research Council, Institute for International Education, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Research and Professional Activities
Dr. Cibulka has been living a double life as a specialist in Soviet/Russian and East European Affairs with current main emphasis on the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and as an Asianist with special focus on the Philippines. His recent work ranged from the exploration of China’s role in Southeast Asia to publications on religion, state and society in East Central Europe. He has been also preparing a multiple volume publication based on his thirty years of recording leadership oral history of the Communist Regimes, Cold War and Post-Communist Transition through exclusive interviews.
Published Books:
Alvin Cheng-Hin Lim and Frank Cibulka eds., China and Southeast Asia in Xi Jinping Era. (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019)
Valenta, Jiri and Cibulka, Frank, eds., Gorbachev’s New Thinking and Third World Conflicts. (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1990).
Teaching Areas
Dr. Cibulka has been teaching in the areas of comparative politics, international relations, foundation courses in history and geography, European, East Asian and American politics and foreign policies. He has been a regular faculty in the Master of Diplomacy and International Affairs (MADIA) graduate program. Among the courses he taught recently are:
- COL .155, People. Places & Traditions
- GEN 150, Human Geography
- GEN 185, Methods of Scientific Research and Development
- POL324, Contemporary World Issues & Problems
- POL325, Comparative Political Systems
- HIS633 (MADIA), The Shaping of Contemporary International Affairs
- HIS623 (MADIA) International Relations
Recent Publications:
- ‘Czech Republic’, in Happy Ever After? Life in Post-communist Europe after EU Membership, eds. Donnacha O Beachain, Vera Sheridan, and Sabina Stan. (Routledge, 2012)
- ‘The Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia: Survival of a Minority Faith in a Secular Society’, in Orthodox Churches and Politics in Southeastern Europe: Nationalism, Conservatism, and Intolerance, ed. Sabrina P. Ramet (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
- Religion and Transitional Justice in the Czech Republic’ in Church, Memory and Justice in Post-Communism, eds. Lucian Turcescu and Lavinia Stan (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 202
Current Projects:
Books:
- Liberals, Conservatives and Mavericks in the Christian Churches of Eastern Europe and Russia since 1980. A Festschrift for Sabrina P. Ramet, Frank Cibulka and Zachary Irwin, eds., (Central European University Press, forthcoming, 2021)
- The Filipino Labor Migration in the Gulf: Case Study of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (A monograph to be completed in 2021; to be published by Hong Kong University Press)