Dr. Leonard Weinberg

Dr.Leonard Weinberg is Foundation Professor of Political Science at the University of Nevada. Over the course of his career he has been a Fulbright senior research fellow for Italy, a visiting fellow at the National Security Studies Center (University of Haifa), a visiting scholar at UCLA, a guest professor at the University of Florence, and the recipient of an H. F. Guggenheim Foundation grant for the study of political violence.

He has also served as a consultant to the United Nations' Office for the Prevention of Terrorism (Agency for Crime Control and Drug Prevention). For his work in promoting Christian-Jewish reconciliation Weinberg was a recipient of the 1999 Thornton Peace Prize.

His books include The Democratic Experience and Political Violence ( 2001,eds., with David Rapoport), The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right (1998, with Jeffrey Kaplan), The Revival of Right-Wing Extremism in the Nineties ( 1997, eds., with Peter Merkl) and The Transformation of Italian Communism (1995). His articles have appeared in such journals as The British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, and Party Politics.

"I've taught a course on the Holocaust and other episodes of genocide in the UNR's Political Science department for more than a decade. I have a continuing interest in the subject and, consequently, a continuing interest in serving on the HGPS board."

Profession
Foundation Professor of Political Science

Contact
weinbrl@scs.unr.edu