Professor Shain is the visiting Goldman Professor of Government at Georgetown University (1999-2001) and the former Head of the Department of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. Since 1988, he has served as a visiting professor at Yale, Wesleyan University, the Fletcher School of Law and International Affairs, and Middlebury College. In 1994-1995, he was a senior fellow at St. Anthony's College, Oxford University.
Professor Shain has won numerous academic awards for his scholarly work, including the APSA Helen Dwight Reid Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, Israel' alon Fellow for distinguished young scholars, and awards from the French and German governments. Shain has written numerous articles in academic and popular journals. His books include, The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exiles in the Age of the Nation-State; Between States: Interim Governments and Democratic Transitions (with Juan Linz); Governments-in-Exile in Contemporary World Politics, and Democracy: The Challenges Ahead (with Aharon Klieman). His latest book, Marketing the American Creed Abroad: Diasporas in the US and their Homelands (1999), recently received the Best Book of the Year Award from the Israeli Political Science Association. Dr. Shain appears widely in the media in North America.
He holds a Ph.D. from Yale University.