Harvey Glickman

Biography

A member of Haverford College's faculty since 1960, Glickman was the first director and campus co-ordinator of African Studies, part of the four college Consortium on African Studies, headquartered at University of Pennsylvania. He is the editor of and contributor to Ethnic Conflict and Democratization (1995), the editor of and contributor to Political Leaders of Contemporary Africa South of the Sahara, a biographical dictionary published in 1992 by Greenwood Press (which won an award as a Best Reference Book in that year from Choice Magazine, a periodical for college librarians). He is also the editor of and contributor to The Crisis and Challenge of African Development (1988), and Toward Peace and Security in Southern Africa (1990). In 1993 he completed a six year term as editor of Issue - A Journal of Opinion, a publication of the African Studies Association. His work on elections and ethnicity in Africa came out as part of a collection published by US Institute of Peace in 1998. His most recent article on Africa and the war on terrorism will appear in the Journal of Asian and African Studies sometime soon.

Glickman is also the author of The Problem of Internal Security in Britain, and co-author of Toward Solving the Puzzle --A Manual for Community Service Organizations, as well many articles and reviews in a number of scholarly journals of political science and Africana. He is a Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, has served as Secretary of the American Political Science Association, manuscript reviewer for several journals and and academic publishers, and as consultant to several U.S. government agencies and annual reference volumes.

Research

As part of his research, Glickman examines how specific countries have moved from authoritarian governments toward democratization, what strategies were involved and what problems these governments face as they grapple with far-reaching changes. Students have been co-authors of parts of Glickman's books and several of his papers. For the past few summers, student research assistants have contributed to studies of elections in Africa, efforts at peacemaking in Sudan, constitution-making in several African states, and Africa’s involvement in the war on terrorism.