Alan Dowty

Alan Dowty (born January 15, 1940) is an American author, historian and professor of international relations and political science emeritus, University of Notre Dame.

Dowty earned a B.A. from Shimer College (1959) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1960, 1963).

He was formerly on the faculty of the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), 1964–1975, Kahanoff Chair Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Calgary, 2003–2006, and President of the Association for Israel Studies, 2005–2007.

In 1964–1975 he was on the faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, during which time he served as Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations and Chair of the Department of International Relations.

He returned to Shimer College to teach in 1966 and in 2013, and has also held visitorships at Tel Aviv University, the University of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs, the Twentieth Century Fund, the University of Haifa, National Defense University, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Brandeis University, State University of New York at Buffalo, and Catholic University of America.

He has been based at the University of Notre Dame since 1975.

In 2017 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in Israel Studies by the Association for Israel Studies and the Israel Institute.

His recent work specialises and focuses on Israeli–American relations, Israel and history of Zionism, Israeli politics and the Arab–Israeli conflict.