Clement Henry
Professor Emeritus — Ph.D., Harvard University
Contact
- E-mail: chenry@mail.utexas.edu
- Campus Mail Code: A1800
Biography
Professor Henry retired in 2011 to chair the Department of Political Science, American University in Cairo. He specializes in the Middle East and North Africa, where he has conducted research on political parties, the engineering profession, and financial institutions. While working on research grants and teaching assignment, he has lived over 12 years in Algiers, Beirut, Cairo and Rabat. He supplemented his Harvard Ph.D. degree in political science with a M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, where he taught from 1973 to 1980. He continues to be interested in the development of civil society in the countries he studies, and he seeks in the tradition of classic political economy to relate financial as well as economic variables to political development. His courses are still online at http://chenry.webhost.utexas.edu/ to be projected in part to the American University in Cairo.
Recent Publications:
He has written six books, including, most recently, UGEMA: L'Union Generale des Etudiants Musulmans Algeriens (1955-1962): Temoignages, Algiers: Editions Casbah, 2010, and Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2001, 2nd ed 2011), with Robert Springborg, and The Mediterranean Debt Crescent: Money and Power in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey (University of Florida, 1996); co-authored or co-edited six others, including The Politics of Islamic Finance (Edinburgh University Press, 2004), Oil in the New World Order (University of Florida, 1995) and Maghreb et Maitrise Technologique (CERP, 1995); and contributed over seven dozen articles to other books and journals, including the American Political Science Review.
