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Adeed Dawisha (political science) and Yildirim Dilek (geology) each were awarded the title of Distinguished Professor by Miami’s board of trustees June 26.
The program, established by trustees in 1981 to attract and retain the most eminent professors, carries a $6,000 per year allowance for professional expenses. A faculty committee screens nominations and conducts rigorous appraisals, including evaluations by nationally known scholars.
Dawisha has been professor of political science at Miami since 2000. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, and educated in England, he earned his doctorate from the London School of Economics. He taught at a number of British universities, and was the deputy director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London.
Dawisha is the recipient of many fellowships and grants, including ones from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, The British Social Science Research Council, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Fulbright Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and The Carnegie Corporation of New York. He also has held a visiting professorship at Johns Hopkins University and a visiting fellowship at Princeton University.
In addition to over 65 scholarly articles and book chapters, Dawisha has authored five books and edited another five. His book on Arab nationalism, published by Princeton University Press in 2003, received uniformly laudatory notices and reviews from academic journals as well as from magazines and newspapers. His latest book, Iraq: A Political History from Independence to Occupation, which explores the structures of governance, identity and democratic institutions in Iraq, has just been published by Princeton University Press.
Dilek, who joined the university in 1996, is an internationally recognized authority on studies of the plate tectonic evolution of major mountain belts and ocean basins. He also is a leading authority in the study and understanding of ophiolites (ancient oceanic lithosphere) and their role in geodynamics and orogenesis. He has published more than 120 papers and 11 books.
He was honored in 2009 with a Distinguished Career Award from the Geological Society of America International Division. In 2007, he was honored with the Geological Society of America Distinguished Service Award. Dilek was recently elected to a four-year term on the scientific board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He also has been selected as one of the six theme leaders for the International Geoscience Programme Scientific Board in the field of solid earth geophysics.
He has won two fellowships from the Japanese government to do research and give lectures in Japan and was invited to participate in three oceanographic cruises, including an invitation in 2005 to participate in the SHINKAI 6500 dive program - notable because few non-Japanese scientists are invited.
Dilek has been editor-in-chief of the Geological Society of America Bulletin and editor for the Journal of Geoscience Education, Journal of the Geological Society of London, Tectonophysics, The Island Arc, Geology and Lithos.
At Miami he has served as a faculty teaching associate in CELT and as a mentor for Harrison Scholars. He is recognized on campus for his inquiry-based approach to teaching, which involves international perspective, interdisciplinary activity and experimental learning. Dilek received Miami’s prestigious Benjamin Harrison Medallion in 2008, The 2008 Miami University Alumni Association Effective Educator Award, the College of Arts and Science Distinguished Educator Award (2002), the University Distinguished Scholar Award (2003), and the E. Phillips Knox Excellence in Teaching Award (2003).
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