Philip S. Khoury

Philip S. Khoury is Ford International Professor of History, Post Tenure, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as Vice Provost for the Arts and for International Activities and before that the first Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. A graduate of Trinity College (B.A.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.), he has held fellowships from the Fulbright Association, Social Science Research Council, A. W. Mellon Foundation, Aspen Institute, and Thomas J. Watson Foundation. He has been an Associate of St. Antony's College, Oxford where he served as a Tutor.

Professor Khoury joined the M.I.T. Faculty in 1981 as a political and social historian of the Middle East. His publications include, Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism, Syria and the French Mandate, which received the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association, Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East, The Modern Middle East: A Reader, and Recovering Beirut: Urban Design and Post-war Reconstruction. 

He is Chairman Emeritus of the American University of Beirut Board of Trustees, Trustee of Underwriters Laboratories, and Overseer of Koc University in Istanbul. He served as Chairman of the World Peace Foundation, Vice Chairman of the Trinity College Board of Trustees, Trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and member of the Academic Research Council of Singapore. He is Trustee Emeritus of the National Humanities Center. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been awarded honorary degrees from Earth University, Trinity College, and the American University of Beirut. He holds the Order of Merit of the Republic of Lebanon.