Adjunct Professor Department of Management
351 University Blvd.Cedar City, UT 84720
435-586-7702
benson@suu.edu
Michael T. Benson is the president of Southern Utah University, the state’s designated public liberal arts and sciences university in Cedar City, Utah, which offers graduate, baccalaureate, and associate programs to more than 8,000 students. Benson also is a tenured professor within SUU’s Department of Political Science, teaching subjects such as international relations, the U.S. presidency, American government, public administration, and conflict of the Middle East. He earned a Master of Nonprofit Administration from the University of Notre Dame in 2011; he previously earned a B.A. in political science from Brigham Young University and a doctoral degree from the University of Oxford in modern Middle Eastern history.