Yehuda Lukacs

Emeritus Faculty

Yehuda Lukacs was born in Budapest and spent his childhood in the Brazilian rainforest and Tel Aviv. He earned his Ph.D. in International Relations from American University's School of International Service.

He is Associate Professor Emeritus of Global Affairs at George Mason University, where he served as Associate Provost for International Programs and as founding director of the Center for Global Education. He co-founded the undergraduate Global Affairs program with Professor Julie Christenson. During his career, he led more than 25 student study abroad programs to over 35 countries across Western and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics, and the Middle East. He also served as president of the Virginia Council for International Education (VaCIE).

In addition to his tenure at George Mason University, he taught at American University; the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Corcoran College of Art and Design; University College Cork in Ireland; and Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. He also held a Lady Davis Research Fellowship at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His books include Op-Ed: Musings on War & Peace in the Middle East and Beyond (KDP Books), Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process (Syracuse University Press), The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Documentary Record (Cambridge University Press), Documents on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Cambridge University Press), and The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Two Decades of Change, co-edited with Abdallah Battah (Westview Press).

Lukacs has published extensively on global affairs, with opinion pieces appearing in The New York Times/International Herald Tribune, The Hill, The Washington Times, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Boston Herald, The Forward, The Daily Star (Beirut), Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, The Washington Examiner, The Palestine-Israel Journal, and on Substack.

He is the executive producer of the 2017 documentary Migration Studies, filmed in Hungary and Serbia, which examines the refugee crisis in Europe. The documentary is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Mg8kDCRLZKY?si=nuDjdKaVxx_YNQ2H