Professor Savitch is the Brown and Williamson, Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Louisville and is a former president, Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. An author of numerous books and monographs, his co-authored work with Paul Kantor Cities in the International Marketplace was named the best book in the urban field by the American Political Science Association. Professor Savitch has published more than 75 scholarly articles and his newest book Cities in a Time of Terror, will be published in 2007. He has been a Fulbright Scholar (France) and a Lady Davis Fellow (Israel). He has served as a consultant to former mayor of New York City, David Dinkins, the Mayors' Urban Summit the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.