Ed Webb

Assistant Professor at Dickinson College

Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Area
Industry: Higher Education

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Ed Webb's Overview

Current

Assistant Professor at Dickinson College

Past

Advisory Board Member at NITLE
Visiting Instructor at Haverford College
Diplomatic Service officer at FCO

Education

University of Manitoba
University of Pennsylvania
University of Cambridge

University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania

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Did diplomacy for a while, had some fun, acquired some skills and knowledge. Then chucked it in for a career in teaching, which was completely the right move - I'm having a ball. My undergraduate degree - Arabic, Turkish, Middle East history and culture - together with those years working in government, particularly my time in Egypt, and a PhD in political science from Penn combine to make me a pretty good teacher of politics. It is all coming together in the launch of the new Middle East Studies major at Dickinson College, one of the most internationally-minded of liberal arts colleges anywhere. Life is good.

Specialties

Middle East history, languages, politics, culture. Comparative and international politics. New technology in pedagogy, including games and simulations as learning tools. Fun.

Assistant Professor

Dickinson College

Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry

July 2007 – Present (4 years 8 months)

Assistant Professor of Political Science & International Studies, Coordinator of Middle East Studies;
Advisory Board Member, NITLE

Advisory Board Member

NITLE

Nonprofit; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry

2009 – 2010 (1 year)

Visiting Instructor

Haverford College

Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry

September 2006 – June 2007 (10 months)

Taught International Relations and International Politics of the Middle East

Diplomatic Service officer

FCO

September 1992 – June 2000 (7 years 10 months)

Posted in ECD(E) (later EUD(E)), Cairo, and Eastern Department.

Should The Daleks Be Exterminated? (with Mark Wardecker)
- Doctor Who and Philosophy, ed. Court Lewis & Paula Smithka, Open Court Press
- November 1, 2010
Authors: Ed Webb

Discusses for a popular audience what the Daleks can tell us about humanity's propensity for evil on a mass scale, informed by important 20th century political thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Max Horkheimer, and Jacob Bronowski.