Dennis J. Deeb II

Dennis “D.J.” Deeb currently works as Academic Coordinator and Social Studies teacher at Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he has been employed since 2016. He has been an adjunct professor of History & Government at Bunker Hill Community College since 2005 and a Political Science instructor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell since 2007.

D.J. Deeb served as an elected member of the Greater Lowell Regional Vocational-Technical School Committee representing the Town of Dracut from 1997-2009, serving as Committee Chairman in 2003-2004. Deeb served as an elected member of the Dracut School Committee from 2005-2008 and ran a competitive race as the Republican Party nominee for State Representative for the towns of Dracut and Tyngsboro in 2002. Deeb also served as an appointed member of the Town of Dracut Committee on Government Rules and Regulations from 2009-2011. In 2013, Deeb was elected to the Methuen School Committee and served for three terms from 2014-2019. He ran unsuccessfully for Methuen Central District City Council in November 2019, losing by just 16 votes.

D.J. Deeb holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice and Political Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, a Master of Science degree in Political Science from Suffolk University, a Master’s Degree in Education: Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and a Master of Arts degree in History from Salem State University.

D.J. Deeb has appeared in Who’s Who of American Teachers, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World. In November 2019, Deeb was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Massachusetts Association of School Committees at a celebratory event in Hyannis, Massachusetts after being nominated for the award in a unanimous vote by his colleagues on the Methuen School Committee earlier that year.

D.J. Deeb is the author of State And Local Politics: Essentials, Campaigning, and Lessons Learned, The Collapse of Middle East Peace: The Rise & Fall of the Oslo Peace Accords (iUniverse, 2003), and Israel, Palestine, and the Quest for Middle East Peace (University Press, 2013). He is also the author of numerous articles and op-eds published locally and nationally.