Provost's Staff

William Brustein
Associate Provost for International Affairs

303 International Studies Building
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL  61820
Phone: (217) 333-6104
Fax: (217) 265-0810
brustein@illinois.edu

Assistant: Barbara Russell, (217) 333-6104

William Brustein is the Associate Provost for International Affairs and Director of International Programs and Studies. In addition he holds the titles of Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and History, and Alumni Professor of International Studies. Before coming to Illinois, he was Professor and Director of the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Brustein has published widely in the areas of political extremism and ethnic/religious/racial prejudice. His most recent books are The Logic of Evil: the Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925 to 1933 (Yale University Press, 1996) and Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press, 2003). In February 2007 he becomes president of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA). He serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Studies in International Education, the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Studies in International Education and the International Education Report. He also serves on the executive committee of the Commission on International Programs of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). He is Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee of NASULGC's Commission on International Programs. In 2003 he was appointed to the NASULGC's Task Force on International Education and helped draft the published report entitled A Call to Leadership: The Presidential Role in Internationalizing the University.