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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.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Previous Academic Positions
Macalester College:
Fall 2003-Spring 2007: Hubert H. Humphrey Professor of International Studies.
Georgetown University:
Fall 2002-Spring 2003: Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, School of Foreign Service.
State University of New York-Buffalo:
Spring 2002: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology.
University of Rochester:
Fall 2001: Visiting Scholar.
New York University:
Fall 1996-Spring 2001: Assistant Professor, The Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
Fall 1996-Spring 2001: Affiliate Member, Department of Sociology.
Fall 1999-Spring 2001: Affiliate Member, Department of Middle East Studies.
University of Massachusetts-Lowell:
Fall 1993-Spring 1996: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology.
Truman College, Chicago:
Fall 1992-Spring 1993: Sociology Lecturer.
Social Science Research Council/MacArthur Program in International Peace & Security:
August 1990-August 1992: Postdoctoral Fellow.
Madison Area Technical College, Wisconsin:
Spring 1990-Summer 1990: Sociology Lecturer.
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990.
M. S., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989.
B. A., Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984.
Other Educational Experience:
Free University of Berlin, Germany, 1991-92 (postdoctoral research).
University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1990-91 (postdoctoral research).
University of Chicago, CIC Traveling Scholar, 1987-88.
Honors
Participant, International Faculty Development Seminar, Bosphorus University and Macalester College, Istanbul, Turkey, May-June 2004.
Runner-up, Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for best special issue for Palestine America, edited for South Atlantic Quarterly, 2003.
Grant Finalist ($150,000), Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Program, The Metanexus Institute, Philadelphia.
Honorable Mention for The Social Origins of Islam, Middle East Studies Association Albert Hourani’s Book Award, 1999.
Participant, Faculty Seminar on Teaching With Technology, Council on Teaching and Learning, Lowell, May 1995.
Invitee, Boston-Area Conference on International Studies After the Cold War, Wellesley College, Dec. 1994.
Recipient, SSRC-MacArthur grant to organize meeting on multiculturalism and transnationalism, Lowell, MA, Oct. 1994.
Finalist, International Sociological Association’s Worldwide Competition for Young Sociologists, 1993.
Recipient, Faculty Development Grant, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Fall 1993.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Committee in International Peace and Security, 1990-1992.
Passed Preliminary Ph.D. Exam with Distinction, 1990.
CIC Traveling Scholar, University of Chicago, 1987-1988.
Publications
Books/Monographs (Authored)
1. Of Death and Dominion: The Existential Foundations of Governance (Northwestern University Press, 2007).
2. The Ends of Globalization (University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 2nd printing, 2002).
3. The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse (University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Winner of the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Book Award Honorable Mention, 1999).
4. Transnationalism (an entire issue of Current Sociology, vol. 41, no. 3, Winter 1993).
5. Anarchy, the Soul of the World (Rowan & Littlefield, forthcoming).
Books/Monographs (Edited)
1. Palestine America (a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, Duke University Press, Fall 2003. Runner up for the Council of Editors of Learned Journals best special issue award, 2003).
2. The Social Role of Intellectuals in the Middle East (in progress).
Book projects in progress (authored)
1. Global Order and the Social Structures of Muslim Society
2. A Theory of Tradition
3. Fluid Solidarity: Understanding Global Social Movements
4. Pathways From Defeat: Toward a Social Psychology of Subjugation
Articles
"Between Instrumental Reason and Hermeneutics: Islamic Elaborations of National and Postnational Ideals in the Twentieth Century." Third World Quarterly, Spring 2008.
"Islamic civilizations." Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. UNESCO (2007).
"The Palestinian Diaspora." In Hazel Smith and Paul Stares, ed., Diasporas in Conflict, Tokyo, New York, Paris: United Nations University Press, 2007.
"Fluid Solidarities: Affiliations Beyond the Nation." In James Goodman and Paul James, eds., Nationalism and Globalism, New York: Routledge, 2007.
"The Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia." In Dawn Chatty, ed., Nomadic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa, Leiden: Brill, 2006.
"Civil Society and the Islamic Experience." International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden. ISIM Review 15, Spring 2005.
"Between Activism and Hermeneutics: One Hundred Years of Intellectual Islam in the Public Sphere." The Macalester International, vol. 14, 2005. "
"Global Order and the Historical Structures of Dar al-Islam." In Manfred Steger, ed., Rethinking Globalism, Rowan & Littlefield, 2004.
"Introduction: Why Palestine?" South Atlantic Quarterly, Fall 2003:
(Republished in Masharif (Haifa) as part of the Documenta12 International Exhibition, 2007).
"Palestine: Listening to the Inaudible" South Atlantic Quarterly, Fall 2003:
(Republished in three journals: Akhabr al-Adab (Cairo); Masharif (Haifa); and Naqd (Algeria). All as part of the Documenta12 International Exhibition, 2007).
"Dialectics of Islam and Global Modernity." Social Analysis, 2002, 43 (3).
"Patriarchy." Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, 2002.
"Imperial Thinking Today: The Cultural Shift." Criterios (Cuba. In Spanish), 2002.
"Society and History in Middle Eastern Studies." In Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes, eds., International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 15, Elsevier, 2001.
"Postnationalism." Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Autumn/Winter 2001
"Life and Vision Under Globalization." Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 13, no. ¾ (Fall/Winter 2001).
"Chaos and the Conduits of Understanding." Social Semiotics, Spring 2001.
"The New Imperialism: Six Theses." Social Text, Spring 2000.
"Sociology, Civil Society, and the Unbound World." The Canadian Journal of Sociology, vol. 23, no. 2/3 (Summer/Fall 1998).
"The Middle East." In Lyn Miller-Lachmann, ed., Global Voices, Global Visions: A Core Collection of Multicultural Books, R. R. Bowker, 1995.
"Frames of Belonging: Four Contemporary European Travels." Social Text, Summer 1994.
"The City and the Country: Notes on Belonging and Self-Sufficiency." Arena Journal, Summer 1994.
"Árabes e Europeus: Duas Lógicas Antagónicas de Descoberta." Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (Portugal), Fall 1993.
Review Articles
Ann M. Lesch and Ian S. Lustick, eds., Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews. In Journal of Palestine Studies, spring 2007, issue 143.
"Behind the Cartoons." Future Islam, March/April 2006.
Eric Davis, Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. In The American Journal of Sociology, January 2006, vol. 111, no. 4.
Mansoor Moaddel, Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse. In The Middle East Journal, Winter 2006, vol. 60, no. 1.
Yehuda Nevo and Judith Koren, Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab
Religion and the Arab State. In The International Journal of Middle East Studies, May 2006, vol. 38, no. 2.
Riaz Hassan, Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society. In The American Journal of Sociology, July 2005, vol. 111, no. 1.
Allen Buchanan and Margaret Moore, eds., States, Nations, and Borders: The Ethics of Making Boundaries. In Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, 2004.
Leo Panitch, ed., Ruthless Criticism of All That Exists. In Contemporary Sociology, July 1998.
Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe, eds., Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature. In Sexualities, vol. 1, no. 2, 1998.
"The Rise and Fall of the Arab Sociological Association, in a Nutshell." SSRC- MacArthur Newsletter, no. 8, 1996.
"The Trouble With Horowitz." Footnotes (American Sociological Association), Sept./Oct. 1995.
Hanan Ashrawi, This Side of Peace. In Multicultural Review, vol. 5, 1996.
Shulamith Hareven, The Vocabulary of Peace. In Multicultural Review, 5: 1, 1996.
Margot Badran, Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt. In Multicultural Review, 4:3, 1995.
Glenn Frankel, Beyond the Promised Land. In Multicultural Review, 4: 2, 1995.
"Religious Revival and Progressive Agendas." PEWS News (Political Economy of the World System Newsletter), May 2005.
"The Arabs." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan Reference Books, 2007 (forthcoming).
"Al-Jazeera." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan Reference Books, 2007 (forthcoming).
"Muhammad." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan Reference Books, 2007 (forthcoming).
"Antonio Gramsci." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan Reference Books, 2007 (forthcoming).
"David Ben-Gurion." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan Reference Books, 2007 (forthcoming).
"The Arab League." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan Reference Books, 2007 (forthcoming).
Books Edited for The World Heritage Series on Multiculturalism and Transnationalism
Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Series Editor
(All published by World Heritage Press, St Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada)
Feeley, Francis and Tatiana Baklanova-Feeley, And the Wisdom to Know the Difference: Conversations with Residents of San Francisco, Paris, and Minsk, 1999.
Korom, Frank, ed., Constructing Tibetan Culture in Exile, 1997.
Balogun, F. Odun, Ngugi and African Postcolonial Narrative, 1997.
Recent Media Appearances
TPT Channel 17—Twin Cities Public Television, Belahdan, September 24, 2006.
Channel 11 evening news (Minneapolis/St. Paul), Jan. 6, 2006 (also January 26).
The Pioneer Press, Saint Paul, Jan. 7, 2006.
WCCO Radio, Minneapolis, Jan. 9, 2006.
CBS-WCCO evening news (Minneapolis/St. Paul), Nov. 12, 2004.
National Public Radio, The Diane Rehm Show, Dec. 3, 2002, 10-11 am.
Wisconsin Public Radio, The Ben Merens Show, Sept. 9, 2003, 4-5 pm.
SBS Radio, Sydney, Australia, early March 2003.
South China Morning Post, early March 2003.
National Geographic Magazine (consultation on Iraq), February 2003.
Keynote/plenary lectures
"Toward a New Middle East: Beyond Empire and Force." Inaugural lecture of the series "The Middle East and US Foreign Policy: Alternative Voices," Institute of Global Studies, University of Minnesota, October 2006.
"Defeat and the Formation of Culture." Conference on Cinema and Society in the Arab World. University of Minnesota, March 2006.
"Lebanon at the Crossroads." Symposium in honor of Caesar Farah’s retirement, History Department, University of Minnesota, October 2005.
"Modern Arab Cultural Life in Context." Symposium on Muhammad Al-Maghut and Poetic Critiques of Arab Nationalism, Macalester College, April 2005.
"Globalization and Arab Studies." Plenary speech at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Annual Symposium, Georgetown University, March-April 2005.
"Faith and Politics in the Future Palestinian State." Sabeel-Pax Christi Conference Hope for the Holy Land, University of Saint Thomas, October 2004.
"Beyond State, Nation, and Identity: Cross-Border Convergences in Islamic Public Philosophy" In conjunction with the research initiative "From Developmental to Cultural Nationalism in Asia?" University of Victoria, September 2004.
"The Palestinian Diaspora," United Nations University and United States Institute of Peace joint project on"Diasporas in Conflict," Macau, September 2004.
"The Settlements and Ethnic Cleansing." Plenary speech at the Conference "Fugitive States: Palestine , Occupation, Dissent," The Humanities Institute, University of Minnesota, April 2004.
"Irrational Imperialism." Keynote speech at the Conference "The New American Empire: A Critical Anatomy," Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, April 2004.
"Islamic Renewal: Between Civil Society and State Politics." Symposium on "The Future of Central Asia: Global Issues in a Regional Context," Macalester College, February 2004.
"The Impasse in Palestine: Why Have the Obvious Solutions Failed?" South Atlantic Quarterly ‘s Conference in conjunction with the special issue Palestine America, Duke University, November 2003.
"Global Affinities Beyond the State: Lessons From the Historical Structures of Muslim Society." In conjunction with the research initiative "From Developmental to Cultural Nationalism in Asia?" University of Victoria, October 2003.
"Dialectics of Islam and Global Modernity." Plenary speech at the International Conference on Ideological Dimensions of Globalization," Globalization Research Center, University of Hawai’i-Manoa, Honolulu, December 2002.
"Fluid Solidarity: Affiliation Beyond the Nation." Conference on Nationalism and Globalism, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, July 2002.
"Fluid Solidarity." Boas/Benedict Lecture, Anthropology Department, Columbia University, New York, April 2002.
"Pathways of Global Islam Today: Or, Why Global Modernity is No One’s Enemy." Plenary speech International Conference on "Global Cultural Formations," Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, October 2001.
"Fluid Solidarity." Keynote speech at the International conference on Transculturalism, The Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, July 2001.
"Beyond State and the Nation: An Outline of Postnational Solidarities." Opening speech at the Conference "The Impact of Transnational Processes on the Nation-State and National Cultures," Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Amman, Jordan, June 2001.
"Modernity and the Social Theory of Rationality." Workshop on Entangled Modernities, The Swedish Collegium For Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2001.
"Postnationalism." Keynote speech in conjunction with the launching of the European Studies Program. University of Rochester, November 2000.
"The Global Mediterranean." Workshop on Culture and Tourism in the Southern Mediterranean. European University Institute, Florence, Italy, October 2000.
"Globalization and the Feeling of Legitimacy." Islamic Social Movements Workshop. Department of Sociology, New York University, February 2000.
"Pessoptimistic Notes on Defeated Cultures." Symposium on Comparative Literacy in a Global Age: The Question of the Comparative at the Turn of the Century, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 1999.
"The Inaudible: Toward a Theory of Suppressed Discourse." Finalists Symposium, ISA’s Worldwide Competition for Young Sociologists, Bielefeld, Germany, 1994.
"Arab versus European Logics of Discovery." 1492 and the Refusal of ‘Discovery’ Symposium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dec., 1992.
"Transnational Culture: Governance and Communication." Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Annual Fellows Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 1992.
"The Lessons From Europe: From Nationalism to Transnationalism as a Path Between ‘Culture’ and ‘Institution.’" Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Annual Fellows Conference, Harare, Zimbabwe, May 1991.
Invited Lectures
"Intellectuals and Social Leadership in the Middle East." Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, October 2007.
"Ways of Seeing Political Islam." Minnesota International Relations Colloquium, March 2007.
"Toward a New Middle East: Beyond Empire and Force," opening talk of the lecture series "The Middle East and US Foreign Policy: Alternative Voice," Institute of Global Studies, University of Minnesota, October 2006.
"Palestinian Society and Politics: Patterns and Trends." The Rotary Club, Minneapolis, May 2006.
"The Fortunes of Islamic Political Movements." The Muslim American Society Convention, Minneapolis Convention Center, April 2006.
"Islam Between Faith and Social Practice." Century College, Minnesota, March 2006.
"Muslim Immigrants and Multicultural Politics in Europe." Saint Thomas University, February 2006.
"After Gaza." St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Minneapolis. Dec. 2005.
"The Question of Palestine." Humanists of Minnesota, February 2005.
"Empire and Globalization." International Roundtable Series, Hamline University, October 2004.
"Islam and globalization: Historical and Contemporary Notes." The Humphrey Fellows Lecture Series, University of Minnesota, February 2004.
"The Arab Street." University of Rochester, April 2003.
"Conflict and Democracy in the Middle East." Albert Greenfield Intercultural Center, University of Pennsylvania, April 2003.
"Lineages of the Public Sphere in the Middle East." Fourth Mediterranean Studies Conference. European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 2003.
"The Peace Process and the Arab Street." National War College, National Defense University, Washington, DC, February 2003.
"Islamic Modernity and the Theory of ‘Tradition.’" Sociology Colloquium Series, State University of New York-Buffalo, March 2002.
"Postnational Culture." Department of Sociology, State University of New York-Stony Brook, March 2001.
"Ordered Anarchy: Global Society After the End of the Nation-State." International Studies Program, University of California-Santa Barbara, October 2000.
"The Coming Age of Ungovernability: The ‘Contract With America’ in a Global Perspective." Social Thought and Political Economy Collective, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Feb. 1995.
Professional and Community Service
Editorial Board Member, The Global South (Indiana University Press).
Member, Albert Hourani Book Award Committee, Middle East Studies Association, 2006.
Public participant (6 meetings), Abrahamic Faiths Inter-Religious Dialogue Group, Bethel University, Minnesota, 2005-2006.
Member, organizing committee of Mizna's annual Arab film festival of the twin cities, 2005-2007.
Book Series Co-Editor, Tracking Globalization: Commodities in Motion (Indiana
University Press), 2002-Present.
Steering Committee Member, Conference on Cinema and Society in the Arab World, Minneapolis, 2006.
Board Member, Mizna (Arab American cultural organization), 2005-2007.
Organizing Committee Member, Mizna's 3rd Annual Arab Film Festival, Minneapolis, 2005.
International Board Member, Faculty for Israeli Palestinian Peace, 2004-2005.
Founder and Editor, PASSAGES: Interdisciplinary Journal of Global Studies, 1997- 2002.
Book Series Editor, World Heritage Studies in Multiculturalism and Transnationalism (World Heritage Press), 1995-2000.
Competition Referee, SSRC/ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, 2001, 2002, 2003.
Guide for Trade and Globalization, Foreign Policy Association web site, New York, (October 2000-February 2001).
Chair and organizer, International Conference on Multiculturalism and Transnationalism, Lowell, Massachusetts, Oct. 1994.
Member, Council of Editors of Learned Journals, 1998-2002.
Board Member, RAWI: Radius of Arab-American Writers, 1999-2000.
Board Member, Lowell Corporation for the Humanities, 1994-1996.
Contact person for North America, Arab Sociological Association.
Organized Workshops and Panels
Organizer and co-chair, Workshop on "The Social Role of Intellectuals in the Middle East." 9th Mediterranean Research Meeting, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 2008.
Presider, concluding plenary of the "Islam and the Orientalist World System Conference" (with Immanuel Wallerstein, Joseph Massad, and Marnia Lazreg), Macalester College, April 2006.
Panel Moderator, "Prospects for Peace and Justice in the Middle East." Georgetown University, March 2003.
Panel Organizer, "Rethinking Citizenship." International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002.
Panel Organizer, "Cultural Economy and Imperialism." Crossroads Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, June-July 2002.
Discussant, Lila Abu-Lughod’s Morgan lecture series talk, "Women and Development Realism in Egyptian TV." Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester, October 2001.
Panel Chair, "Postcolonial Perspectives on Early Modern Encounters," Group on Early Modern Cultural Studies, Coral Gables, FL, October 1999.
Panel Discussant, "Visual Borders, Visceral Borders." Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, November 1997.
"Arab/Middle Eastern Family Experiences." Relatively Speaking Conference, New York University, May 1997.
Conference Papers
"Irrational Imperialism." International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2005.
"New Imperialism, New Solidarity: Two Pathways Through the Global Politics of Difference." International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002.
"Modernity as Reformation: Notes on Contemporary Islam." International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002.
"Solidarity: A Reconsideration of the Concept in the Context of Global Social Movements." International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002.
"Imperialism Today and the Rediscovery of Culture." Crossroads in Cultural Studies, 4th International Conference, Tampere, Finland, June-July 2002.
"Two Early Modern Defeats: Napoleon, Zayni Barakat, and the Unfreezing of Ottoman Time." Group on Early Modern Cultural Studies, New Orleans, November 2000.
"The Anarchic Future: Beyond Globalization and Empire." Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst, MA, September 2000.
"How the Aztecs Arrived in the New World." Group on Early Modern Cultural Studies, Coral Gables, FL, October 1999.
"The New Imperialism: Six Theses." American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 1999.
"The Inception of Modernity: the View from Egypt." Group on Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport, RI, November 1998.
"Chaos and Conduits of Audibility." American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 1998.
"The Globalization of Western Questions." The New Europe at the Cross-Roads Conference, York, UK, August 1997.
"The Ends of Imperialism Today: The Transnational Challenge." Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst, MA, December 1996.
"The Rise and Fall of the Politics of ‘Calling’: Contemporary Reflections." Association for Humanist Sociology, Hartford, CT, October 1996.
"The Tragic and the Inaudible: Pathways From Chaos." American Sociological Association, New York, August 1996.
"Civil Society and the Idea of Totality." Eastern Sociological Association, Boston, March 1996.
"The Coming Age of Ungovernability: Dislocations in Measures, Capitalism, and Knowledge." Conference on Global Change, University of New Hamphire, Oct. 1995.
"Realm, Empire, Enclave: Notes on the Transmission of Governance." International Conference on Multiculturalism and Transnationalism, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Oct. 1994.
"Multicultural Societies and Transnational Effects: A Dialectic Revisited." World Congress of the International Sociological Assoication, Bielefeld, Germany, July 1994.
"Global Consciousness and the Standardization of Cultures of Governance." American Sociological Association, Pittsburgh, August 1992.
"The City and the Country: Belonging and Self-Sufficiency." Theory, Culture & Society’s Tenth Anniversary Conference. Champion, PA, August 1992.
"Post-Structuralism and the Future of Collective Subjectivity." Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago, April 1990.
"Israel, Palestine and Discursive Imagination: Notes on the Audible and Inaudible in the Conflict." Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., Dec. 1989.
"Habermas Deconstructed." Radical Scholars Conference, Wisconsin Dells. May 1989.
"Recent Critical Arab Scholarship in History." Arabic Circle, Middle Eastern Studies Center, University of Chicago, Feb. 1988.
"The Origins of Islam: Problems of Study." Middle Eastern Studies Center, University of Chicago, Dec. 1987.
General Research Areas
Middle East/Islam; globalization; historical and comparative sociology; social theory; nationalism and collective identity; social movements; sociology of religion; political philosophy; colonialism and postcolonialism.
Courses/Seminars Taught
Undergraduate: Sociology of Islam; Global Society; Histories and Logics of Globalization; Global Excursions; Economy and Culture; Social Movements; Modern Islam; Society and State in Islam; Modernity and Tradition; Contemporary Arab Society; Advanced Social Theory; Images of Power; Ideologies of Governance; Political Sociology; Urban Sociology; Cities and Culture; Multiculturalism; Justice, Revenge and Defeat; Senior Seminar; Sociology of Deviance; Sociology of Law; Introduction to Sociology.
Graduate: Contemporary Sociological Theory; Proseminar: Globalization; Civil Society and the Public Sphere in the Arab World; Thesis Seminar; Introduction to the Study of the Arab World; Cultural Globalization and the Arab World.
Languages
Fluency: English, German, Arabic, Dutch.
Reading knowledge: French, Afrikaans. Some Spanish.
Institutional Service
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 2007- 2008.
Member, Peace Summit Planning Committee, Macalester College, 2006-2007.
Member, Planning Committee for the Middle Eastern and Islamic Civilization Academic Concentration, Macalester College, 2005-2006.
Faculty Advisor, Muslim Students Association, Macalester College, Fall 2003—Present.
Film series organizer, "Perspectives on the Arab World," Macalester College, Spring-Fall 2004, Fall 2005.
Film series organizer, "Freedom and Rebellion in the Arab World," Georgetown University, Spring 2003
Member, Executive Committee, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Spring 2003.
Co-Chair, Foundations Task Force, Gallatin School, New York University (NYU),
1999- 2000.
Member, Enrollment Task Force, Gallatin School, NYU, 1999-2000.
Member, Curriculum Committee, Gallatin School, NYU, 1999-2000.
Member, Working Group on Information Technologies, NYU, Spring-Fall 1999.
Member, Faculty Search Committee, Gallatin School, NYU, 1998-1999.
Member, Curriculum Committee, Gallatin School, NYU, 1997-1998.
Member, Ad-hoc Appeals Board, Gallatin School, NYU, 1998.
Coordinator, Subcommittee on First-Year Seminars, Gallatin School, NYU, 1998.
Member, Faculty Search Committee, Gallatin School, NYU, 1996-1997.
Member, Advisement and Policy Committee, Gallatin School, NYU, 1996-1997.
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Masters of Liberal Arts (for programs in Global Studies, Cultural Studies, and Communication), University of Massachusetts-Lowell, 1995-1996.
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Cultural Diversity, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, 1993-1996.
Faculty Advisor, Sociological Society, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, 1993- 1996.
References
Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council, 810 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019. E-mail: calhoun@ssrc.org
Asef Bayat, Academic Director, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, P.O. Box 11089, 2301 EB Leiden, Netherlands. E-mail: a.bayat@isim.nl
Göran Therborn, Director, The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences. E-mail: Goran.Therborn@SCASSS.UU.SE
Shalini Randeria, Professor of Ethnology, University of Zürich, Switzerland. E-mail: randeria@access.unizh.ch
Barbara Cooper, Associate Professor, Department of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. E-mail: bacooper@rci.rutgers.edu
Khaldoun Samman, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN 55105. E-mail: samman@macalester.edu
Angela Dillard, Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, 715 Broadway, New York, NY 10003. E-mail: add1@nyu.edu