Seth Cantey

Seth Cantey is the Lewis G. John Term Associate Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University, where he serves as head of the Middle East and South Asia Studies (MESA) program. His research spans political violence, negotiation, political rhetoric, gender and politics, intelligence analysis, and Bitcoin. His work is published or forthcoming in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism; Parameters; Media, War & Conflict; Contemporary Arab Affairs; Journal of Intelligence History; Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies; edited volumes by Oxford University Press and others; and public-facing outlets such as The Hill, Foreign Policy in Focus, and Bitcoin Magazine. He is also the author of three editions of Rowman & Littlefield’s The Middle East and South Asia. Cantey has received funding for language training, course development, and research from the US Department of Education, the Mellon Foundation, and the Bradley Foundation, as well as support for teaching and professional workshops from the Council on Foreign Relations, NATO, the US German Marshall Fund, and several US universities. Before joining Washington and Lee, he earned a PhD and MA in Political Science from Duke University, an MA in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University, and a BA in Psychology and Spanish from Bucknell University. An avid traveler, he is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Arabic and Portuguese.

Education

• Ph.D. in Political Science, Duke University (2014)
• M.A. in Political Science, Duke University (2011)
• M.A. in Latin American Studies, Georgetown University (2008)
• B.A. in Psychology and Spanish, Bucknell University (2003)

Research

• Middle East Politics
• Negotiation
• Political Violence
• American Foreign Policy

Teaching

• Global Politics
• Middle East Politics
• Terrorism
• Intelligence
• Bitcoin