Pete Moore is the Marcus A. Hanna Associate Professor of Politics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, received a B.A. from the Virginia Military Institute, an M.A. from the University of Virginia, and a PhD from McGill University, Montreal. Prior to coming to CWRU, he held positions at Dartmouth College, Concordia University (Montreal), and the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. He has served on the editorial board of MERIP and in 2008-2009 he was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Zayed University in Dubai, UAE. In 2010 along with several colleagues he founded the Northeast Ohio Consortium for Middle East Studies (NOCMES), a collaborative educational initiative of several local universities.