Joseph Drew Ph.D
Board Member, Editor-in-Chief of the CCR
Joseph Drew is a Professor of Government and History at the University of Maryland Global Campus. Editor-in-Chief of the Comparative Civilizations Review since 1997, Prof. Drew has long been a Member of the Board of the Board of Directors of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. He is a member of the D.C. Board of Accountancy.
His university posts have included Dean of Business and Social Science at Shepherd University, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Southeastern University, President of the Anglo-American University of Prague, and president of the main campus of the University of Northern Virginia. He has been Assistant Director of the Education Commission of the States and a staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives on education appropriations. His university service began as Director of Grants and Research at Brooklyn College in 1968.
Recent publications include “When Toynbee’s ‘Fossilized’ or ‘Arrested’ Societies Are Reborn as Peripheral States: the Cases of Israel, Mongolia, Korea and Japan” in Mongolia and Northeast Asian Security: Nuclear Proliferation, Environment and Civil Confrontations, ed. by Alicia J. Campi and Jagannath Panda. London: Routledge, 2021. He also recently edited or co-edited, and wrote chapters within, four volumes prepared for entering English language university students in Turkey. The books, printed at Anadolu University Press, are entitled Introduction to International Relations, Introduction to World Civilizations, Contemporary World Civilizations, and Political Science.
