John O. Voll is professor of Islamic
history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for
Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. He taught Middle
Eastern, Islamic, and world history at the University of New Hampshire for
thirty years before moving to Georgetown in 1995. He graduated from Dartmouth
College and received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University. He has lived in
Cairo, Beirut, and Sudan and has traveled widely in the Muslim world. The
second edition of his book Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World
appeared in 1994. He is co-author, with John L. Esposito, of Islam and
Democracy and Makers of Contemporary Islam and is editor, author, or co-author
of six additional books. He is a past president of the Middle East Studies
Association and also of the New England Historical Association. He has served
on the Boards of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, the
New Hampshire Humanities Council, the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs,
and the Sudan Studies Association. He was the chair of the program committee
for the 1999 annual meeting of the American Historical Association. In 1991 he
received an Egyptian Presidential Medal in recognition for scholarship on
Islam. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on modern Islamic
and Sudanese history.
Education
- Ph.D. (1969) Harvard University, History & Middle Eastern Studies
- A.M. (1960) Harvard University, Middle Eastern Studies
- A.B. (1958) Dartmouth College, History (Senior Fellow)
