Martha Crenshaw in North Africa

Martha Crenshaw joined the Stanford faculty in 2007. She is a senior fellow emerita in Stanford’s prestigious international-focused institutions: the Center for International Security and Cooperation, part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. She is also a professor emerita of political science by courtesy in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford and a professor emerita at Wesleyan University, where she taught from 1974 to 2007 and was the Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor of Global Issues and Democratic Thought. Much sought after to speak at universities, governmental agencies, and political forums on her primary areas of research—international conflict and political violence, including that associated with contemporary right-wing extremism in the United States—Dr. Crenshaw is an affiliate of NCITE, a Center of Excellence of the Department of Homeland Security, and the Director of the Mapping Militants Project. Previously she was a lead investigator with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism.

Dr. Crenshaw has led previous Stanford trips to Morocco, Egypt, India, and southeast Asia, as well as the Mediterranean coast. On this trip, she will lecture on the causes and consequences of the “Arab Spring,” the legacy of the Algerian Revolution, and the current state of politics in the Middle East and North Africa, including implications for U.S. foreign policy toward the region.

• Coauthor of Countering Terrorism; author of Revolutionary Terrorism: The FLN in Algeria, 1954–1962 and Explaining Terrorism: Causes, Processes and Consequences

• Director, Mapping Militants Project

• Professor of political science by courtesy, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University, and Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies, 2007–2019

• At Wesleyan University: professor of government, 1987–2007; chair, department of government, 1985–86, 1994–95, 1996–97; director of international studies, 1993–94

• Wesleyan University Award for Teaching Excellence, 1995

• Guggenheim Fellow, 2005

• International Studies Association Distinguished Scholar Award, 2016

• Corresponding fellow, British Academy

• BA, political science, Newcomb College of Tulane University; PhD, University of Virginia