• PHD Sociology, University of California at Berkeley 1992
World Area Of Focus:
• Africa Less than 10% • Asia 25%-49% • International 25%-49% • Latin America Less than 10% • Middle East 50%-74% • Russia/Eastern Europe Less than 10% • Western Europe/European Union (EU) 10%-24%
Languages:
• Arabic (limited working proficiency) • French (professional proficiency) • Persian (professional proficiency) • Portuguese (limited working proficiency) • Spanish (professional proficiency) • Turkish (limited working proficiency)
Specialization:
Islamic movements; Middle East; Democracy.
Relevant Experience:
• 2002-2003 Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ • 1998-2017 Assistant-Full Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • 1993-1997 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Georgia State University
Distinctions:
• 2013-2017 Board member, Middle East Studies Association (2013-6). Grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York (2014-7), Henry Luce Foundation (2013-4), Mellon Foundation (2014-5), National Institute of Justice (2013-5), U.S. Department of Education (2014-8).
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
10
Relevant Courses Taught:
• SOCI 419 Sociology of Muslim Societies
Recent Publications:
• 2017 "Ideology and Threat Assessment: Law Enforcement Evaluation of Muslim and Right-Wing Extremism," with Ahsan Kamal and Hajar Yazdiha, Socius, Vol. 3, April 2017, pp. 1-13.
• 2016 "After the Arab Spring: Do Muslims Vote Islamic Now?" (first author with Didem Turkoglu), Journal of Democracy, Vol. 26, No. 4, October 2015, pp. 100-109.
• 2016 "Liberalism," "Modernism and Modernity," and "Secularism," in Richard C. Martin, ed., Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd Edition (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2016), Vol. 2, pp. 662, 731-3, 1028-9.
• 2016 "Muslim Modernities: Interdisciplinary Insights Across Time and Space," first author with Bruce B. Lawrence, introduction to special issue on "Muslim Modernities," The Muslim World, Vol. 105, No. 4, October 2015, pp. 440-445.
• 2015 "Muslim Modernities: Interdisciplinary Insights Across Time and Space,"with Bruce B. Lawrence, introduction to special issue on "Muslim Modernities," The Muslim World, Vol. 105, No. 4, October 2015, pp. 440-445.
• 2015 "When Forecasts Fail: Unpredictability in Israeli-Palestinian Interaction" (first author with Aseem Hasnain), Sociological Science, Vol. 1, June 2014, pp. 239-259.
• 2015 "Powerblindness" (first author with Rajesh Ghoshal, Kristin Gibson, Clinton Key, Micah Roos, and Amber Wells), Sociology Compass, Vol. 8, No. 6, June 2014, pp. 718-730.
• 2015 "After the Arab Spring: Do Muslims Vote Islamic Now?" with Didem Turkoglu, Journal of Democracy, Vol. 26, No. 4, October 2015, pp. 100-109.
• 2014 "Islam and Global Politics" and "Islam's Hard Edge." Pp. 63-75 and 80-91 in Lawrence Pintak and Stephen Franklin, editors, Islam for Journalists: A Primer on Covering Muslim Communities in America. Columbia, Missouri: Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, 2013.
• 2014 "When Forecasts Fail: Unpredictability in Israeli-Palestinian Interaction," with Aseem Hasnain, Sociological Science, Vol. 1, June 2014, pp. 239-259.
• 2011 The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011).
• 2008 Democracy Denied, 1905-1915 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008).
• 2004 The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004).
• 1998 Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
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