Roger E. Kanet is professor emeritus of political science and former Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (1989-1997), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and professor emeritus of political science and former Dean of the School of International Studies (1997–2000), University of Miami. Roger Kanet’s dissertation at Princeton, titled “The Soviet Union and Sub-Saharan Africa, 1917–1965,” included Henry Bienen as a member of his dissertation committee.