Brantly Womack | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Dallas (B.A.) University of Munich (Fulbright Scholar) University of Chicago (M.A.; Ph.D.) |
Thesis | The Foundations of Mao Tse-Tung's Political Thought (1977) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Virginia Jilin University (Honorary) East China Normal University (Honorary) Northern Illinois University University of Texas at Dallas |
Brantly Womack is Professor Emeritus of Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, where he has held the Cumming professorial chair, and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Miller Center, where he has held the CK Yen professorial chair. Most of his work has been on Chinese national and international politics.
A native of Texas, Womack received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1977. He had previously received a M.A. from Chicago, and a B.A. from the University of Dallas in 1969. He was a Fulbright Scholar, at the University of Munich, 1969–1970.
After he received his doctorate, he worked as Assistant Professor of Political Science and Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas, followed by positions as Assistant and then Associate Professor and finally full Professor at Northern Illinois University. He was briefly a Reader in Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. He went to the University of Virginia in 1992 as Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor of Public Affairs in its The Miller Center for Public Affairs, and was later appointed to its Hugh S. & Winifred B. Cumming Memorial Chair in International Affairs.[1] He retired from the University in June 2021 and remains active in his scholarship and teaching. He holds the Boeing Visiting Faculty Chair in International Relations of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, Beijing for 2022-2023.
He is also an Honorary professor at Jilin University (Changchun), and at East China Normal University (Shanghai).
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