Hank Kennedy

Professor

Kirby 314-B

336.758.5453

ckennedy@wfu.edu

BA Eckerd College, 1973
AM Duke University, 1975
MPP Duke University, 1978
PhD Duke University, 1979

Areas of Expertise: Comparative Public Policy, US Foreign Policy in the Middle East and South Asia, Pakistan Studies

Hank Kennedy has been a member of the Department of Political Science at Wake Forest University since 1985.  He has written about South Asian political and governmental systems since 1975 and has conducted extensive field research in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. He has held three senior Fulbright Research Fellowships during his career. He served as the Director of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies from 1988-2001; and was the institute’s Secretary from 1982-1988.  He has written, edited, or co-edited thirteen books, which deal with South Asia.  His most recent include: Government and Politics in South Asia (Westview Press, 2014), Pakistan: 2005 (Oxford University Press, 2006), and Pakistan at the Millennium (Oxford University Press, 2003).  He is also the author of numerous other scholarly publications.  Professor Kennedy also has a long-standing teaching and professional interest in the issues pertaining to US foreign policy with respect to the Middle East and South Asia especially pertaining to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and Iraq.  He has also served as a lecturer on two (University of Pittsburgh; University of Virginia) Semester at Sea semester voyages. He currently serves as the co-Director of the Middle East and South Asia Studies Program at Wake Forest.