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He was at the Woodrow Wilson International Center first as a guest scholar and then as a senior research associate, after which he joined the [[Brookings Institution]] as a senior fellow, where he founded and directed the Africa Project for 12 years. He was then appointed distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the [[City University of New York]] before joining Johns Hopkins University.
Among his numerous awards in his country and abroad, Dr. Deng is co-recipient with Roberta Cohen of the 2005 [[University of Louisville]] [[Grawemeyer Award]] for “Ideas Improving World Order” <ref name=grawemeyer.org>{{cite web|title=2005- Francis Deng and Roberta Cohen|url=http://grawemeyer.org/worldorder/previous-winners/2005-francis-deng-and-roberta-cohen.html}}</ref> and the 2007 Merage Foundation American Dream Leadership Award. In 2000, Dr. Deng also received the Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action.
Dr. Deng holds a Bachelor of Laws [with honours] from [[Khartoum University]] and a Master of Laws and a Doctor of the Science of Law from [[Yale University]]. He has authored and edited 40 books in the fields of law, conflict resolution, internal displacement, human rights, anthropology, folklore, history and politics and has also written two novels on the theme of the crisis of national identity in the Sudan. He was born in 1938 and in 1972 married Dorothy Anne Ludwig, with whom he has four sons, Donald, Daniel, David and Dennis.
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