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Joseph Szyliowicz
ph | 303.871.2418
e | jszyliow@du.edu
Cherrington Hall 317
2201 South Gaylord St
Denver, CO 80208 USA
Joseph S. Szyliowicz is an international expert on transportation policy, technology, and development, with a particular interest in the Middle East. He was named Outstanding Educator of the Year' by the Colorado Transportation Community in 2000 and is the recipient of the 1997 International Award for Transportation and Ethics from the Alliance for Transportation Research and the Outstanding Scholar award from the Burlington Northern Foundation (1986). He is a former Fulbright Senior Research Fellow and has received grants and fellowships from such institutions as the Ford Foundation, National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Sloan Foundation, IBM, HEW, the Rand Graduate Institute, the American Research Institute in Turkey.
He is author or co-author of a half-dozen books on transportation, energy, technology, and the Middle East and has written more than two dozen book chapters, articles and op-ed pieces that have appeared in Transportation Research, Transportation Quarterly, Transportation Law Journal, Trends 2000, Policy Sciences, The Middle East Journal, Middle Eastern Studies, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, World Politics, the Chicago Tribune, the Denver Post, and Engineering-News Record. He has made numerous radio and television appearances, including the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour.
Szyliowicz received a BA from the University of Denver, MA from JohnsHopkins, and PhD from Columbia University. He is in great demand as a guest lecturer and teacher and has visited as a Senior Fellow at Bilkent University (Turkey), St Antony's College, Oxford University, the Harry S Truman Institute and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Hebrew University (Israel) and has lectured at numerous other universities throughout the world. Szyliowicz joined the faculty of the Graduate School of International Studies at DU in 1965, where he teaches classes in transportation policy, comparative politics, the Middle East and technology and international affairs.