Philip S. Khoury
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Philip S. Khoury is Associate Provost and Ford International Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The son of an Arab-American lawyer (Shukry E. Khoury, 1904-1985) and a former Lebanese diplomat (Dr. Angela Jurdak Khoury, 1915-), Philip S. Khoury was born on October 15, 1949, in Washington, D.C. and was educated at the Sidwell Friends School (1953-1967)in that city. He went on to study at Trinity College (BA, 1971) and at Harvard University (PhD, 1980). In 1981, he moved down the Charles River to join the MIT History Faculty as an assistant professor, rising to the rank of full professor nine years later. He began his career in academic administration in 1987 when he was appointed associate dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Then in 1991, he became dean of that school, a position he held for fifteen years during which he was responsible for maintaining the international leadership of its five doctoral programs, for building up the school's east asian studies faculty, and for raising numerous endowed professorships. In 2002, he was appointed the first Kenan Sahin Dean Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT. He left the dean's office in 2006 to become MIT's associate provost responsible for overseeing MIT’s non-curricular arts programs and initiatives, including the MIT Museum and the List Visual Arts Center; MIT’s strategic planning for international education and research; MIT’s efforts to promote the public understanding of science and technology; and enhancing existing activities and new opportunities at the intersections of MIT’s five schools.
Khoury is a political and social historian of the Middle East. Among his books are Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism (Cambridge University Press, 1983); Syria and the French Mandate (Princeton University Press, 1987), which received the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association. He is the co-author of Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (University of California Press, 1991); Recovering Beirut: Urban Design and Post-war Reconstruction (Brill, 1993); and The Modern Middle East: A Reader (I.B. Tauris, 1993, 2004). He is currently conducting research on war and society in the Middle East during World War II.
In 1998, Khoury was elected President of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and in 2002 a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is Chairman of the World Peace Foundation, Vice Chairman of the American University of Beirut, and a Trustee of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, Trinity College, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He is also on the Board of Overseers of Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. He was a director of the Harvard Cooperative Society between 1998 and 2003.
Khoury has been awarded fellowships from the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, and Thomas J. Watson Foundation. He has been a Visiting Associate of St. Antony's College in the University of Oxford and a Faculty Associate of Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. At MIT, he has twice received its Navas Award and held the Class of 1922 Career Development Professorship.
