Guthrie Sweeny Birkhead Jr. (1920–2013[1][2]) was an American academic and the sixth dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University.
[4] During the Second World War, he was commissioned as a first lieutenant in General Patton's Third Army and served with the "Rolling W" 89th Infantry Division in France and Germany.
After war, he joined Princeton University where he earned a master's degree in 1949 and completed his PhD in politics in 1951 in U. S. Conservation Policy.
[2][3] Birkhead succeeded Scotty Campbell to became Maxwell’s dean in 1977,[7] from which he retired in 1988, but continued teaching on the faculty for more than a decade to stay connected with students.
He travelled occasionally, to Turkey, Pakistan and China, to provide public administration training and resources to civil servants.