Rate My Professor Cynthia Schneider

Schneider teaches courses in Diplomacy and Culture in the School of Foreign Service. She is the co-founding director of the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University. Her work focuses on cultural diplomacy, particularly relations with the Muslim world and the Middle East and North Africa. She co-directs the Los Angeles-based MOST Resource on Muslims on Screen and Television and the Timbuktu Renaissance, a strategy for countering extremism and promoting peace and development that grew out of her leadership of the Arts and Culture Dialogue Initiative within Brookings’ Center for Middle East Policy. A nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Institution, she authors policy papers and contributes to blogs for Huffington Post, CNN.com, and Foreign Policy. Schneider serves on multiple boards of directors and advisory boards and organizes initiatives bridging arts, culture, media, and international affairs.