Background
Barkan, Joel David was born on April 28, 1941 in Toledo. Son of Manuel and Toby (Wolfe) Barkan.
political scientist university professor
Barkan, Joel David was born on April 28, 1941 in Toledo. Son of Manuel and Toby (Wolfe) Barkan.
AB, Cornell Univercity, 1963; Master of Arts, University of California at Los Angeles, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1970.
He was a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Iowa for over forty years. He wrote numerous articles on the political development of Kenya for Foreign Affairs. Barkan was a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington.
He also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and United States Agency for International Development.
He also consulted for the United Kingdom"s Department for International Development, the United Nations Development Program, the National Democratic Institute and the National Endowment for Democracy. Barkan studied at Cornell University as an undergraduate and then pursued a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Los Angeles
As well as his professorship at the University of Iowa, he was a visiting faculty at Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Cape Town, the University of Dar es Salaam, the Institute of Development Studies in Nairobi, the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi. Barkan died aged 72 of a pulmonary embolism at his vacation home in Mexico City.
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Board of directors Iowa City Foreign Rels. Council 1981-1983, 85-91, vice president, 1988-1989, president 1989-1990. Member American Political Science Association, African Studies Association (board directors 1990-1993), Council Foreign Rels.
Married Sandra Lynn Hackman, September 9, 1962. Children: Bronwyn Michelle, Joshua Manuel.