NCUSAR Study Visit to Yemen Escort Dr. James A. Winship
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Author: National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
Released 21 April 2008
Dr. James A. Winship
Dr. James A. Winship recently joined the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations as Vice-President, Programs. While his overall responsibilities with the National Council touch on many areas of education and outreach, Dr. Winship has specific responsibility for the National Council’s Model Arab League programs at the university and the high school level as well as the National Council’s University Student Summer Internship in Washington, D.C. that places students in a wide variety of organizations dealing with U.S.-Arab issues.
Dr. Winship is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, where he taught courses in international relations and American foreign policy, as well as comparative politics of East Asia and the Middle East for thirty-three years. He came to Augustana in 1975 and variously chaired the both the political science department and the social science division at the college. Dr. Winship was named William F. Freistat Professor of Studies in World Peace in 1993 and served as Director of Augustana’s Freistat Endowment for International Peace Studies from its inception in 1986 to 2006.
Dr. Winship received his Ph.D. in Political science and International studies from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. His undergraduate degree is also from Johns Hopkins, and his Master’s Degree in International Studies is from The Johns Hopkins University’s Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. In addition to his interest in political science, Dr. Winship holds the Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree from Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where much of his work focused on the intellectual history of religion in American foreign policy thinking as well as the study of world religions. Given this dual training, he has a particular interest in the interplay of politics and religion in American life and in international relations.
Dr. Winship has been a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, People’s Republic of China. He also served as Co-Director of Augustana’s East Asian term and in that capacity made frequent return trips to Japan and China. Dr. Winship has been a Mid-West Faculty Fellow with the Globalization Project of the Center for International Studies and the Chicago Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago. He has also participated in institutes organized by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, the United States Institute for Peace, and the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii. In addition to administering student visits to East Asia, Dr. Winship has led faculty development visits to China for the East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University and the Asian Studies Development Program in 2004 and 2006.
In 1994 Dr. Winship was named a Joseph J. Malone Fellow in Arab and Islamic Studies by the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations. That initial contact with the National Council began a long-term affiliation that has seen Dr. Winship coach award-winning Model Arab League teams, send many students to work as interns and staff members with the National Council, and mentor his students toward a wide variety of professional foreign affairs positions within the U.S. government, the non-governmental organization community, and private enterprise.
Dr. Winship’s wife, Joan D. Winship, is Executive Director of the International Association of Women Judges and an independent consultant working with women’s and human rights issues within the non-governmental organization network in Washington, D.C.