Our newest faculty member (he officially joins us in August) is surfacing as an authoritative voice on Turkey and Egypt. Check out postings and interviews featuring Josh Walker, the first Jepson graduate to return to the School as a teacher.
- In a lengthy interview in Today’s Zaman, Turkey’s largest English-language newspaper, he explains why “Turkey is one of the most critical relationships for U.S. “
- In the Boston Globe, he pens an opinion piece on what lessons, if any, Egypt can take from Turkey
- In a Feb. 11 Foreign Policy article he argues for the Return of the Turks as Middle East Kingmaker
Joshua W. Walker is a postdoctoral fellow at the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University and a fellow at the German Marshall Fund based in Washington, D.C. Walker is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies and he will be joining the Jepson School faculty as an assistant professor in August, 2011. He will teach international and cross-cultural leadership courses. His work focuses on international relations and security studies with a particular emphasis on the Middle East and East Asia. He received his Ph.D. in Politics and Public Policy at Princeton University where he wrote a dissertation on the role of historical memories in post-imperial successor states’ domestic and foreign policies with particular focus on Turkey and Japan.
He is working on his book project Shadows of Empires: How Post-Imperial Successor States Shape Memories. Walker was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Transatlantic Academy based in Washington, D.C., working on Turkey and its neighborhood that resulted in a policy report and forthcoming book project titled, Getting to Zero.
Walker is a fellow of the Pacific Council on International Policy, a former fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a graduate fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination and Bradley Foundation. He is the co-founder of the Program on Religion, Diplomacy, and International Relations at Princeton and the Young Professions in Foreign Policy in New York. He holds a master’s degree in International Relations from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Ankara, Turkey, and worked for the U.S. Embassy and State Department on Turkey.
Media contact: walker2@richmond.edu or 203-508-0808.
