Nikos Zachariadis, is a Professor of Political Science at the State Department University of Alabama in Burmingham, where he also served as Dean of Political Science between the years 2000-2006 and 2012-2014, further more between 2003 and 2010 he was Dean of International Studies in the same department. In 2014 and 2015 he served as visiting scholar in the Institute of Political Studies in Grenoble, France and in the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK in 2007.
He holds a Bachelor degree in Communication / France from the Slipper Rock University, Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Georgia and Graduate Certificate in Global Policy Studies, University of Georgia, 1990. He holds also Ph.D. title from the University of Georgia in Political Science in 1992 and he was awarded with the Samuel H. Beer Dissertation Prize for best dissertation in the years 1992-94 from the British Politics Group.