Curriculum Vitae
DIANE SINGERMAN
Department of Government
The American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016-8130
(202) 885-2362, Fax: 202-885-2967
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Princeton University, Department of Politics, Program in Near Eastern Studies, 1989.
M.A. Princeton University, Department of Politics, Program in Near Eastern Studies, 1984.
Graduate Studies, The American University in Cairo, M.A. program, Political Science, 1980-82.
B.A. Princeton University, Department of Politics, Certificate of Proficiency in Near Eastern Studies and in African Studies, magna cum laude, 1979.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Associate Professor, American University, Department of Government, School of Public Affairs, 1991-present.
Visiting Research Scholar, The American University in Cairo, 1998. Associate Researcher, CEDEJ (Centre D'Etudes et de Documentation Economique, Juridique et Sociale), Cairo, 1998. [Sabbatical Leave]
Assistant Professor, Drexel University, Department of History and Politics, 1989-1991.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo. Princeton University Press, 1995, paperback edition, 1996; American University in Cairo Press, 1997, Available in the Middle East.
Development, Gender and Change in Cairo: A View from the Household. Indiana University Press, 1996 (co-editor with Homa Hoodfar).
Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture and Urban Space in the New Globalized Middle East, Diane Singerman and Paul Amar, eds. American University in Cairo Press, forthcoming May 2006.
Cairo Hegemonic: State, Justice, and Urban Social Control in the New Globalized Middle East, Paul Amar and Diane Singerman, eds. American University in Cairo Press, forthcoming Winter 2007.
Scholarly Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“Restoring the Family to Civil Society: Lessons from Egypt.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 2:1 (Winter 2006): 1-32.
"Contesting Myths, Critiquing Cosmopolianism, and Creating the Cairo School of Urban Studies: An Introduction” In Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture and Urban Space in the New Middle East, Diane Singerman and Paul Amar, eds. American University in Cairo Press, forthcoming May 2006 (Paul Amar, co-author).
“Islamist Movements and The Siege of Imbaba: Neighborhoods as the Uncivilized, Deviant ‘Other.’” In Cairo Hegemonic: State, Justice, and Urban Social Control in the New Middle East, Paul Amar and Diane Singerman, eds. American University in Cairo Press, forthcoming Winter 2007.
“Contesting Justice, Making Power in Cairo: An Introduction.” In Cairo Hegemonic: State, Justice and Urban Social Control in the New Middle East. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, Forthcoming Winter 2007.
“Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, Legal Activism, and Coalition Politics.” In Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization, Robert Hefner, ed., 161-188. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
“The Networked World of Islamist Social Movements.” In Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach, Quintan Wiktorowicz, ed., 143-163. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004.
“Networks, Cultural Frames, and Political Opportunity Structures: Understanding the Islamist Movement in Egypt.” In Resistances et Protestations Dans Les societes Musulmans, Mounia Bennani-Chraibi and Olivier Fillieule, eds., 219-242, 2003. (In French)
“The Politics of Emergency Rule in Egypt.” Current History 101 (January 2002): 29-35.
“The Cost of Marriage in Egypt: A Hidden Variable in the New Arab Demography and Poverty Research.” Special Edition on “The New Arab Family,” Nick Hopkins, ed. Cairo Papers in the Social Sciences, 24 Spring 2001, 80-116. Co-authored with Dr. Barbara Ibrahim [issued in 2003].
“Networks, Jobs and Everyday Life in Cairo.” In Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East. Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn Early, eds., 2nd ed. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002.
“The Cost of Marriage in Egypt.” Special Edition on Marriage Patterns in the Arab World, al-Raida [The Pioneer: published by the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Beirut ]18-19, No. 93/94, (Spring/Summer 2001): 20-25, Co-authored with Dr. Barbara Ibrahim.
"The Family and Community as Politics: The Popular Sector in Cairo." In Development, Change and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household, eds. Diane Singerman and Homa Hoodfar. Indiana University Press, 1996.
"Introduction: The Infitah, Development and Gendered Change." In Development, Change and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household, eds. Diane Singerman and Homa Hoodfar. Indiana University Press, 1996 (co-authored).
"Engaging Informality: Women, Work, and Politics in Cairo," in Middle Eastern Women and the Invisible Economy, ed. Richard A. Lobban, Jr., 262-286. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1998.
"Informal Networks: The Construction of Politics in Urban Egypt," in Islamic Urbanism in Human History: Political Power and Social Networks, ed. Tsugitaka Sato. London: Kegan Paul, 1997.
"Where Has All the Power Gone? Women and Politics in Popular Quarters of Cairo," in Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East, eds. Fatma Müge Goçek and Shiva Bilaghi. Columbia University Press, 1995.
"Women, Networks, and the State." In "Gender, Politics, and the State: What do Middle Eastern Women Want?" Augustus Richard Norton, et. al., Middle East Policy. 3 (Summer 1997): 155-189.
"Politics at the Household Level in a Popular Quarter of Cairo," Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 13 (Summer 1990).
Published Working Papers, Reviews, and Commentary
Review of Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo by Farha Ghannam, American Anthropologist, 107: 2 (June 2005): 284-284.
“Women and Strategies for Change: An Egyptian Model,” Arab Reform Bulletin, Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Translated by Dar Al-Watan for Journalism, Printing and Publishing, July 2004, Volume 2, Issue 7, http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1589#fate. In Arabic: http://www.alwatan.com.kw/arb/default.aspx?isu=20040700000207#2004070000020744
“Changes in the Status of Egyptian Women: A View Through the Prism of Marriage and Divorce.” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Middle East Program, September 28, 2004, co-sponsored by the United States-Egypt Friendship Association, Washington, DC. Event Notes.
http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/assets/documents/USEF102104.pdf
“The Women’s Movement in Egypt: Initiatives in Legal, Electoral, and NGO Activism.” In “Middle East Women on the Move: Openings For and the Constraints on Women’s Political Participation in the Middle East.” Conference Proceedings, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Middle East Project. 2003.
Review of Marcia Inhorn, "Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 30:1 (February 1998): 135-138.
"The Politics of Informality in Egypt: Networks, Family, Economy, and Islamists." MacArthur Consortium Working Paper Series. The Minnesota-Stanford-Wisconsin Consortium, The MacArthur Interdisciplinary Program on Peace and International Cooperation, Institute of International Studies, University of Minnesota, January 1997.
"Civil Society in the Shadow of the Egyptian State: The Role of Informal Networks in the Constitution of Public Life." Los Angeles: G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies Monograph Series, University of California at Los Angeles, 1998.
Co-editor, Special Issue, "The Jewish Community in the USA: The Challenges of Diversity and Continuity, "The Diplomat: A Forum for Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations, 2 (February 1997). [Printed in English and Arabic].
"The Force of Ideas." The Diplomat: A Forum for Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations, 2 (February 1997): 28-30. [Printed in English and Arabic].
"Perhaps Americans Should Begin to See Beyond 'Islamic Stereotypes.'" The Diplomat: A Forum for Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations, 1 (February 15, 1996). [Printed in English and Arabic].
"Dialogue Between Political Islam and the West: On the Importance of Non-Violence and the Peaceful Means to Change." Al-Mustakillah, (July 22 1996): 9 [In Arabic]
Conference Papers
“Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism in Cairo: Feeding Consumerism or Citizenship?” Prepared for the Symposium on Cities and Globalization: Challenges for Citizenship, The Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO), Beirut. December 9-11, 2005.
“The Economic and Social Context of Marriage for Egyptian Youth: Preliminary Results from the Egyptian Labor Market Pilot Panel Survey, 2004,” Panel on “Egyptian Youth and Social Change,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 2004, San Francisco.
“The ‘Hidden’ Costs of Marriage in Egypt: Youth, Financial Challenges, and Delayed Age at Marriage,” Population Association of Iran Annual Meeting on “Population Issues with Emphasis on Youth in Iran,” University of Shiraz, Iran, 12-13 May 2004.
“Claims-Making on the State: Employment, Youth, and Gender.” 2004 Annual Symposium of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, “Visions for Development in the Arab World,” 15 April 2004, Washington, D.C.
“Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Legal Activism, Coalition Politics, and Reclaiming Islam.” Conference on Institutions, Ideologies, and Agency: Family Change in the Arab Middle East and Diaspora. The University Center for International Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 11, 2003.
“Political Possibilities under Constraints: Networks and Movements in Egypt.” A Conference on the Social Context of Politics, 2-4 June 2002, Brown University.
“Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Legal Activism, Coalition Politics, and Reclaiming Islam.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meetings. Washington, D.C. November 2002.
"The Costs of Marriage in Egypt: Material Matters, Gender Norms and Survey Silences.” “Conference on Social Change and Family Responses in the Middle East." The University Center for International Studies and the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 5-6, 2002.
“Forces of Change in Contemporary Egypt: The Case of Arrested Activist Sa’ad Eddin Ibrahim.” Roundtable Participant. Middle East Studies Association Annual Meetings. San Francisco, CA. November 2001.
“Social Movement Theory and Middle East Studies.” Roundtable Participant. Middle East Studies Association Annual Meetings. San Francisco, CA. November 2001.
“Women’s Activism in Egypt: NGOs, Elections, and the Law.” Delivered at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Conference on Women’s Political Participation in the Middle East. Washington, D.C., October 2001.
“The Costs of Marriage in Egypt: Anxieties, Financial Strategies, Gendered Norms, and the Measurement of Poverty.” Prepared for the 7th International Association of Middle Eastern Studies Congress. Free University of Berlin. 4-8 October 2000 (co-authored with Barbara Ibrahim).
"Civilizational Missions in Cairo: The Internal 'Other’ and Modernity.” Delivered at the Annual Meetings of the Middle East Studies Association, Orlando, FL, November 2000.
“The Costs of Marriage in Egypt: A Hidden Dimension in the New Arab Demography.” Delivered at the Conference on The New Arab Family, Cairo Papers in the Social Sciences and the Social Science Research Center, Ninth Annual Symposium, The American University in Cairo, May 6-7, 2000.
“Networks, Cultural Frames, and Political Opportunity Structure: Understanding the Islamist Movement in Egypt.” Conference “Les Mouvements Sociaux dans le Monde Musulman Contemporain.” Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland, December 3-4, 1999.
"The Construction of a Political Spectacle: The Siege of Imbaba or Egypt's Internal 'Other.'" Prepared for the Conference Series on "Political Structures and Logics of Action in the Face of Economic Liberalization: Distributive and Normative Processes in the Arab Countries of the Mediterranean." Workshop Three: "Providing and/or Restructuring Distributive and Normative Processes: The Role of the Local." Sponsored by CEDEJ/Freie Universitaat Berlin. Center for the Study of Developing Countries, Cairo University. Cairo, Egypt. 14-15 November, 1998; October 1999.
"The Mediating Place of Family and Informal Networks in Egyptian Civil Society." La Naissance du Citoyen: L'Egypt de Muhammad Ali A Nos Jours [The Birth of the Citizen: Egypt from Muhammed Ali to the Present]. Centre d'études et de documentation economique, juridique, et social (CEDEJ). 3-5 November 1998, Cairo.
"Egypt's Internal 'Other': The Siege of Imbaba, Informal Housing Areas, and the Denial of Political Community." Presented at the 1998 Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association Conference, Boston, 3 September 1998.
"Women, Networks and the State: Organizational Ambiguities." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association Conference, San Francisco, 31 August 1996.
"Gendered Work: Informality, Family, and Politics in Cairo." Presented at the Annual Meetings of the International Association for Feminist Economics, Washington, DC, 22 June 1996.
"The Force of Ideas." Presented at The Diplomat's Symposium on the Dialogue of Cultures and Civilisations, June 14-16, 1996, London.
"The Politics of the Informal Sector in Egypt: Networks, Family, Economy, and the State." Presented at the MacArthur Program for Peace and International Cooperation Minnesota-Stanford-Wisconsin Consortium Workshop on Social Networks, Organizations, and Informal Institutions. University of Minnesota, March 8-9, 1996.
"The Political Possibilities of the Informal Sector in Egypt." Presented at the Conference on the State and Informal Economies in the Middle East and North Africa, Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University, February 22-23, 1996.
"The Household, Gender, Structural Change, and Politics: Lessons from Egypt." Presented at the Conference on Empowering Women in the Global South: Preparing for Beijing. Center for the Study of the Global South, American University, April 12, 1995.
"Informal Networks: The Construction of Politics in Urban Egypt," presented at The 18th International Conference of Historical Sciences, Roundtable on Islamic Urbanism in Human History: Political Power and Social Networks, August 29, 1995, Montreal.
"Making the Invisible Visible: From Networks to Political Violence in Egypt," presented at The American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting, Baltimore, April 25, 1993.
"The Political Economy of Opposition," presented at the Conference on Government and Opposition in the Middle East," George Washington University, April 1992.
"The Islamic Movement in Egypt: Informal Politics, Political Participation or an Urban Social Movement," presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, September 1992.
"Gender and Politics in Egypt: An Instructive Approach," presented at the Conference on Gender and Society in the Middle East, The University of Michigan, September 1991.
"Reproducing the Family: Examples from Cairo," and "Informality in Cairo: Politics and Economics in Tandem," presented at the Conference on Identity, Rationality, and the Postcolonial Subject, Columbia University, February 28, 1991.
"Politics and Economics in Tandem: The Informal Sector in Cairo," presented at the International Political Science Association World Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1991.
"Informality in Cairo: Politics and Economics in Tandem," presented at the Middle East Studies Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 1990.
"The Household as a Political Institution in Sha‘bi Communities in Cairo," MEAwards Seminar, The Population Council, Cairo, Egypt, July 1988.
"The Household and Community in Contemporary Cairo," presented at the Middle East Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, November 1987.
"Avenues of Participation: Family and Politics in Popular Quarters of Cairo," presented at the Middle East Studies Association Conference, Boston, November 1986.
Invited Lectures & Seminar Talks
“Marriage, Youth and Social Anxieties in Egypt.” Center for Middle East Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 6 October 2005.
"Rewriting Divorce in Egypt." The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for Behavioral Research & the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, American University in Beirut, December 6, 2005.
“The Costs of Marriage in Egypt.” Faculty of Health Sciences. American University in Beirut, December 8, 2005.
“Changes in the Status of Egyptian Women: A View Through the Prism of Marriage and Divorce.” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Middle East Program, September 28, 2004, co-sponsored by the United States-Egypt Friendship Association, Washington, DC.
“Youthful Anxieties: Marriage, Personal Status Law & Parliamentary Coalitions in Egypt.” The United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, 23 March, 2004.
“Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Legal Activism, Coalition Politics, and Reclaiming Islam.” The Program in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, February 16, 2004.
“Women’s Issues in Saudi Arabia,” Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in co-sponsorship with King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Conference on "Saudi Arabia and the Crisis in Saudi-US Relations: A Saudi-American Dialogue,” Georgetown University, January 29, 2004.
“Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Legal Activism, Coalition Politics, and Reclaiming Islam.” The World Bank, Gender Unit, Near East and North Africa Division. May 24, 2003.
“The Cost of Marriage in Egypt: A Hidden Variable in the Measurement of Poverty and the New Arab Demography.” Gender Issues and Development Policy Brown Bag Seminar, International Food Research and Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2000.
“The Cost of Marriage and Poverty Studies in Egypt: A Hidden Variable in the New Arab Demography?” Seminar Series on Poverty, Household Economics and Rural Development, Development Research Group, The World Bank, 24 May 2000.
"Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics and NGOs in Egypt." Philanthropy Forum, Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University, Indianapolis. October 6, 1998.
"The Family, Civil Society and Networks in Egypt." The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. Indiana University, Bloomington. October 5, 1998.
"Gender, Islam, and Modernity." German-American Academic Council and the Social Science Research Council Summer Institute for Young Scholars. Washington, D.C. August 11, 1998.
"The Informal Sector and Public Discourse in Egypt." Research Scholars/Fellows Seminar. The American University in Cairo. May 20, 1998.
"Avenues of Participation": A Discussion with the Author." Centre d'études et de documentation economique, juridique, et social (CEDEJ), March 10 1998.
U.S. Department of State, Briefing and Seminar for the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Daniel Kurtzer, December 12, 1997.
"Egypt and Contemporary Politics," Foreign Service Institute, Near East and Africa Bureau, September 1997.
"Family, Informal Networks, and Civil Society: The Construction of Public Life in Egypt." The Ford Development Seminar, Center for International Studies, MIT, April 18, 1996.
"The Crisis of Governance in Egypt." Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, April 10, 1996.
"Constructing Public Life: Social Movements, Civil Society and Informal Networks in Comparative Perspective." Life Cycle Institute, Catholic University, February 29, 1996.
"Civil Society in the Shadow of the Egyptian State: The Role of Informal Networks in the Constitution of Public Life." Presented at a Colloquium on the Civil Society Debate in Middle Eastern Studies. G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies. UCLA, January 29, 1996.
"Avenues of Participation in Egypt," The Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C., April 13, 1995.
"The Household, Gender, Structural Change, and Politics: Lessons from Egypt." Presented at the Conference on Empowering Women in the Global South: Preparing for Beijing. Center for the Study of the Global South, American University, April 12, 1995. Published in Proceedings of the Conference on Empowering Women in the Global South: Preparing for Beijing. The Center for the Study of the Global South, American University. Washington, D.C.: Reports and Papers 1995, No. 14, 40-46.
"Reading Politics in Egypt: An Anthropological Perspective from the Household and the Popular Sector," Concordia University, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Montreal, Canada, November 20, 1992.
"Informality in Cairo: Politics and Economics in Tandem," The African Studies Committee and The Center for Cultural Studies, The University of Pennsylvania, February 1991.
"A Response to Political Exclusion: Family, Informality, and Networks in Cairo," Near Eastern Studies Department and Comparative Muslim Societies Seminar, Cornell University, September 1990.
ACADEMIC HONORS AND GRANTS
Research Grant for Project on “Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, Legal Activism, and Coalition Politics.” Sponsored by Pew Charitable Trusts’ Project on "Civil Democratic Islam: Prospects and Policies for a Changing Muslim World" Robert Hefner, Project Director, Institute on Religion and World Affairs, Boston University.
MEAwards Program Grant, “The Cost of Marriage in Egypt.” The Population Council, Cairo, Egypt. 2000-2002.
American University Senate Research Awards Program. "The Cost of Marriage in Egypt: Measurement Conventions, Understanding of Poverty, and Changing Social and Demographic Norms." Awarded for the 2000-2001 academic year.
American University, Center for Teaching Excellence and General Education Program Award for Technology-Enhanced General Education Courses, 1999. “Comparative Politics, The Web, and Internet-Enhanced Pedagogy.”
American University Research Award, "A Reading of the Siege of Imbaba: Informality, Islamists, and State-Society Relations in Egypt," 1997-1998 Academic Year.
American University Curriculum Development Grant, Dean of Faculties, "Indigenous Voices and Comparative Politics," 1996.
Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences, The Middle East Studies Association of North America, November 1990. Awarded to the best dissertation in the social sciences in Middle East studies.
Nomination for the Gabriel A. Almond Dissertation Award in Comparative Politics, American Political Science Association, by the Department of Politics, Princeton University, 1990.
Faculty Senate Computer Resources Committee Grant, The American University, 1991.
Drexel University Faculty Development Award, 1990.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad, Cairo, Egypt, 1985-1986.
Social Science Research Council Award for Dissertation Research, 1985-1987.
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Princeton University, U.S. Department of Education, 1982-84, 1986.
Center for Arabic Studies Abroad Fellowship, The American University in Cairo, 1984-85.
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Middlebury College, School of Arabic, Summer 1983.
International Graduate Fellowship, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, Department of Political Science, 1980-1982.
SERVICE
Professional Service
Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies, Cairo, Egypt, International Advisory Board, 2004-present.
Middle East Studies Association, Member of the Board, 2001-2003.
Middle East Studies Association Liaison to the American Political Science Association, 2000-2003.
Member of the Board, Council on Egyptian-American Relations, Washington, D.C. 1999-2000.
External Reviewer, Center for Middle East and North African Studies, University of Michigan, October 2001.
Member, Social Science Research Council, Near and Middle and Middle East Research and Training Activity (NMERTA) Fellowship Committee. 1998-2000.
Member, Women’s and Gender Studies Advisory Board, AU.
Member, Nominating Committee, Middle East Studies Association. 1998.
Member, Selection Committee, International Field Research Fellowship Program, Social Science Research Council, 1996-1997.
Member, Selection Committee, International Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Program, Social Science Research Council, 1994-1997.
Member, Selection Committee, Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences, Middle East Studies Association, 1995.
Advisory Faculty, Social Science Research Council International Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Program Fellows Conference, Park City, Utah, October 1992 and San Diego, California, December 1991.
Editorial Boards
Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies (JMEWS)
The Journal of the Center for Women’s Studies, University of Tehran, Iran.
Associate Editor, Muslim World Journal of Human Rights
Editorial Board, Women’s Research: Advisor Board Member for H-Mideast-Politics, H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences Online
Manuscript and Proposal Reviewer:
University of California Press, American University in Cairo Press, Indiana University Press, University of Florida Press, St. Martin's Press, IB Tauris, Duke University Press, Columbia University Press, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Women & Politics, SIGNS, Comparative Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Journal, Dossier: Women Living Under Muslim Laws, American Political Science Review, American Anthropologist, Journal of Middle Easst Women’s Studies, U.S. Institute of Peace, National Science Foundation Grants: Political Science Program and Cultural Anthropology Program.
COURSES TAUGHT
American University: Introduction to Comparative Politics, The Dynamics of Political Change, Third World Politics, Politics in the Middle East (undergraduate and graduate), Classics of Comparative Politics (Ph.D. proseminar), Comparative Politics of Developing Countries (graduate), Advanced Ph.D. Seminar: The Boundaries of Comparative Politics (graduate); Social and Political Movements (graduate); Gender and Politics in the Middle East; Gender, Power and Politics (undergrad); Senior Honors Thesis Seminar (Political Science).
Drexel University: Comparative Government, International Politics, An Introduction to the Middle East, Comparative Politics of the Middle East
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST