sentences:  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"  and the 2007 Merage Foundation American Dream Leadership Award.