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Mohammed A. Bamyeh, PhD

University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990

Title: Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor
Campus Address: 2423 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Tel: 412-648-7591
E-mail: mab205@pitt.eduMohammed Baymeh

 

Curriculum Vitae

Fields

Islam; globalization; social and political theory; social movements; culture

Teaching

Anarchism; Civil Society; Global Society; Sociology of Religion; Modernity and Tradition; Cultural Sociology.

Selected Publications

2009. Anarchy as Order: The History and Future of Civic Humanity. Rowan & Littlefield.

2007. Of Death and Dominion: The Existential Foundations of Governance. Northwestern University Press.

2000. The Ends of Globalization. University of Minnesota Press.

1999. The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse. University of Minnesota Press.

2010 (forthcoming). Islam and Society: Movements, Structures, Critique. ASA’s Rose Series/Russell Sage Foundation.

Honors and Awards

Runner-up, Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for best special issue for Palestine America, edited for South Atlantic Quarterly, 2003.

Honorable Mention for The Social Origins of Islam, Middle East Studies Association Albert Hourani’s Book Award, 1999.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Committee in International Peace and Security, 1990-1992.

Projects

 

1. Narratives of Spiritual Transformation in Modern Islam

2. A Theory of Tradition

3. Pathways From Defeat: Toward a Social Psychology of Subjugatio