Howard J. Wiarda

Howard J Wiarda was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, grew up in Grand Rapids, and was in the honors program at the University of Michigan where he received his BA degree. He earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Florida.

Wiarda married Dr. Iêda de Barros Siqueira, February 4, 1964. She is a Brazilian American Research Specialist at the Library of Congress and Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia. The couple had three children

• Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and Founding Head of the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia.
• Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.[2]

• Honorary doctorate and Honorary Professor at Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia
• Order of Christopher Columbus, by President Leonel Fernández, the highest honor that the Dominican Republic government can bestow. President Fernández is Wiarda's former student.[3]

• Wiarda, Howard (1977). Corporatism and development : the Portuguese experience. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9780870232213.
• Wiarda, Howard (1993). Politics in Iberia : the political systems of Spain and Portugal. New York, NY: HarperCollins College Publishers. ISBN 978-0673464323.
• Wiarda, Howard (1997). Corporatism and comparative politics : the other great "ism. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-1563247163.
• Wiarda, Howard (1999). Non-Western Theories of Development. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace College. ISBN 0-15-505366-3.
• Wiarda, Howard (2000). Introduction to comparative politics : concepts and processes. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers. ISBN 978-0155078697.
• Wiarda, Howard; Margaret MacLeish Mott, Margaret (2001). Catholic roots and democratic flowers : political systems in Spain and Portugal. Westport, Conn: Praeger. ISBN 9780275970185.
• Wiarda, Howard (2006). Development on the periphery : democratic transitions in Southern and Eastern Europe. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0742530331.