NCUSAR Study Visit to Yemen Participant Dr. George Von der Muhll
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Author: National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
Released 22 April 2008
Dr. George Von der Muhll
Dr. George Von der Muhll
Professor Emeritus, University of California — Santa Cruz
Dr. George Von der Muhll is Professor Emeritus of the University of California, Santa Cruz. After attending Oberlin College as an undergraduate, he studied philosophy and economics at the London School of Economics and received his Ph.D. degree in Government from Harvard University. His fields of specialization and writing include political theory, literature and politics, democracy and democratization, the intellectual history of Europe, political socialization, comparative public administration, societal change and political development in the Third World, and the politics of economic development. In retirement, he has engaged in studies of the governance of ancient empires and the dynamics of the rise and fall of civilizations, and his recent publications largely reflect these interests.
Previously a member of the University of Chicago and Swarthmore College political science faculties, he has also served as a visiting professor at Makerere University (Uganda), the National University of Ethiopia, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), Dartmouth College, Charles University (Prague), and Utrecht Honors College (The Netherlands), where he was also the founding Director of the University of California's Education Abroad Program in that country.
For six years, he was a member of the editorial board of The American Political Science Review. As a Congressional Fellow in Washington, DC, he divided his time between an internship in the U.S. House of Representatives and the staff of Senator (and later Vice President) Hubert Humphrey. His travels have taken him throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and much of the African continent. He is married to Lydia Blanchard and has two sons.