He received his Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. Before moving to University of Utah in 2009, he was the Director of the School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA) at University of Maine. Earlier he served as Director of Research for the William S. Cohen Center for International Policy and Commerce. He recently published “Iranian Society 30 Years after the Revolution: A Surprising Picture” in the Spring 2009 special issue of The Middle East Journal.