Professor Ekovich is currently a professor in the International and Comparative Politics Department. He specializes and publishes on U.S. politics and foreign policy. Previously, he was associate professor at the École Polytechnique (1984-2000). Ekovich also lectured and consulted abroad during this time, visiting almost 30 countries in Europe, Africa and Central Asia. In 1999-2000 Ekovich was the first American to participate in the 52nd National Session of the Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale (the French War College). He was also a consultant for both the Secrétariat Général de la Défense Nationale (the approximate equivalent of the U.S. National Security Council) and the French Ministry of Defense between 1992 and 1997.
While Ekovich has wide consulting experience, he has also had an extensive career in academics. He has been an associate professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, lecturer at the Institut Supérieur d’Armement et Défense at the University of Paris II, tutor at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1995-2001), guest lecturer at the University of Paris I-Sorbonne (2000), lecturer at the Institut d’Études Economiques et Sociales de l’Institut Catholique (1997-1999), the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (1996-1998), the École Militaire Saint-Cyr, and Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) in 1985-1992. In 1990 he was a Senior Fulbright Professor at the Tunisian Foreign Ministry.
BA, MA, PhD, University of California, Irvine.
Faculty sponsor of Student Veterans Association
Engaged in research on the revolution in Tunisia