Doctoral Students in Mideast Sociology

To add yourself to this list, please e-mail Charles Kurzman <kurzman@unc.edu> with the following information:

Name
E-mail address
Web-page address
Department
University
Dissertation title

Name: Hashem Alrefai
E-mail: haa118@pitt.edu
Website: https://www.sociology.pitt.edu/people/alrefai
Department: Sociology
University: University of Pittsburgh 
Dissertation title: The Silence of Hijaz: The Rise of Authoritarian Regime in Arabian Peninsula.
Research interests: Social Movements, Political Sociology, Historical Sociology, The Arab Spring, Islamic Studies

Name: Wisam Alshaibi
E-mail: wisam.alshaibi@ucla.edu
Website: http://www.wisamalshaibi.net
Department: Sociology
University: University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation research: The Anatomy of Regime Change: Transnational Political Opposition and Domestic Foreign Policy Elites in the Making of US Foreign Policy on Iraq

Name: Muhammad Amasha
E-mail: Muhammad.amasha@yale.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muhammad-amasha-9331241aa
Department: Sociology
University: Yale
Research interests: cultural sociology, political sociology, historical sociology, sociology of religion, sociology of intellectuals, social theory, methodology, Islam, Middle East, Arab Spring
MA thesis title: Islam, Politics, and the Arab Spring: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Ulama

Name: Arman Azedi
Email: aazedi@uci.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of California, Irvine
Research interests: Social movements, political sociology, protest participation

Name: Bali Bahadur
E-mail address: balibahadur2002@gmail.com
Department: Sociology
University: Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar, Punjab, India
Dissertation research: Lower caste emigration from Punjab state of the republic of India to the Middle East and impacts on the family, community, and society left behind

Name: N. Yasemin Bavbek
E-mail address: nur_bavbek@brown.edu
Department: Sociology
University: Brown University

Name: Seda Baykal
Email address: sedaa.baykal@gmail.com, seb198@pitt.edu
Web-page address: https://pitt.academia.edu/SedaBaykal
Department: Sociology
University: University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation title: TBD
MA Thesis Title: Faith and Reason in Higher Education: Social Scientific Study of Islam at Ankara University School of Divinity

Name: Ladin Bayurgil
E-mail address: ladinb@bu.edu
Web-page address: http://www.bu.edu/sociology/graduate-programs/current-students/ladin-bayurgil/
Department: Sociology
University: Boston University
Research interests: urban sociology, gentrification and social stratification, social movements, political sociology, actor-network theory

Name: Matthew J. Chandler
Email: chandler.20@nd.edu
Website: matthewjchandler.wordpress.com
Department: Sociology; Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
University: University of Notre Dame
Dissertation Title: People Power and Peacebuilding: Civil Resistance and the Processes of Contentious Politics in Egypt, 2011-2015

Name: Aghil Daghagheleh
E-mail address: adaghagheleh@sociology.rutgers.edu
Department: Sociology
University: Rutgers University

Name: Samuel Dinger
E-mail address: sld366@nyu.edu
Web-page address: https://www.samueldinger.me/
Department: Sociology
University: New York University
Dissertation title: “No Country for Young Men: Masculinity, Morality, and Exile in Lebanon”

Name: Cyrus Dioun
Email: dioun@berkeley.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of California, Berkeley

Name: Shai Dromi
E-mail address: shai.dromi@yale.edu
Web-page address: http://sociology.yale.edu/people/shai-dromi
Department: Sociology
University: Yale University
Dissertation title: The Cultural Transformations of Transnational Humanitarianism in the late 19th Century

Name: Tugce Ellialti
E-mail address: ellialti@sas.upenn.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation title: Gender Justice in the Wake of Legal Reform and Socio-Political Change: Sexual Violence on Trial in Turkey

Name: Adem Muzaffer Erol
E-mail address: erol.muzaffer@gmail.com
webpage: http://marmara.academia.edu/MuzafferErol
Department: International Relations and Political Science
University: Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Dissertation title: A comparative analysis of Israeli and German citizens origins of Turkey in reference to citizenship and identity

Name: Ehsan Farshchi
E-mail address: efarshch@uci.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of California, Irvine

Name: Rezvaneh Ganji
E-mail address: ganjr455@newschool.edu
Department: Sociology
University: The New School

Name: Anna Grasso
Department: Political Science
University: Sciences Po-Aix Université Aix-Marseille
Web-page address: https://iep-aix.academia.edu/AnnaGrasso/CurriculumVitae
Dissertation title: Imams in the city: Unionization and politicization of imams in contemporary Tunisia

Name: Gozde Guran
E-mail address: gguran@princeton.edu
Department: Sociology
University: Princeton University

Name: John Hartley
E-mail address: John.hartley@yale.edu
Web-page address: http://www.yale.edu/sgs/pages/hartley
Department: Sociology
University: Yale University

Name: Ali Hedayat
E-mail: hedayat.ali@gmail.com
Department: Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
Currently: Visting Research Fellow at Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
Dissertation title: The Mobilization of Protest Movements: A Qualitative Comparative Study of the Right-Wing Extremist and Islamist movement in the Federal Republic of Germany

Name: Deniz Ilhan
E-mail address: deniz.ilhan@stonybrook.edu
Webpage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dnzilhan
Department: Sociology
University: Stony Brook University
Dissertation title: Undecided – Tentative (Critical intellectuals and intellectual organizations in Muslim communities)

Name: Reyhaneh Javadi
E-mail address: javadi1@ualberta.ca
Department: Sociology
University: University of Alberta

Name: Sarah Kaiksow
E-mail address: skaiksow@princeton.edu
Department: Sociology
University: Princeton

Name: Zep Kalb
E-mail address: zepkalb@g.ucla.edu
Web-page address: https://ucla.academia.edu/ZepKalb
Department: Sociology
University: UCLA
Research interests: Social movements and contentious politics, labor, comparative-historical sociology, quantitative methods

Name: Ayse Perihan Kirkic
E-mail address: akirk029@fiu.edu
Department: Global and Sociocultural Studies / Sociology
University: Florida International University
Research interests: migration, race, immigrant identities, MENA immigrants

Name: Hee Eun Kwon
E-mail address: hekwon@ucsd.edu
Web-page address: www.hekwon.com
Department: Sociology
University: University of California San Diego
Dissertation title (working title): Temporary Migrants’ Stratified Sense of Belonging: the Case of Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Name: Yagmur Karakaya
Email: karak014@umn.edu
Website: www.yagmurkarakaya.com
Department: Sociology
University: University of Minnesota

Name: Nihal Kayala
Email: nihalkayali@ucla.edu
Website: https://soc.ucla.edu/grads/nihal-kayali
Department: Sociology
University: University of California, Los Angeles

Name: Syeda Quratulain Masood
E-mail address: syeda_masood@brown.edu
Web-page address: https://www.brown.edu/academics/sociology/syeda-masood
Department: Sociology
University: Brown University
Dissertation title: A Tale of Two Texts: A Transnational Ethnography of Cultural Representation and Reception in Afghanistan, Norway and the United States

Name: Jihan Mohammed
E-mail address: jihan.mohammed@uod.ac
Web-page address: http://sociology.msu.edu/grad/graduate-directory/jihan-mohammad
Department: Sociology
University: Michigan State University

Name: Gokhan Mulayim  
E-mail address: gokhanmulayimm@gmail.com 
Web-page address: gokhanmulayim.com
Department: Sociology
University: Boston University
Dissertation prospectus title: The Economization of Security: Markets for Private Security Services in Istanbul

Name: Naama Nagar
E-mail address: nnagar@Ssc.wisc.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Name: Elahe Nezhadhossein
E-mail address: Elahe.nezhadhossein@mun.ca
Department: Sociology
University: Memorial University of Newfoundlan
Dissertation title: Iranian Women’s Activities in Social Movements, and Their Representations in Canadian and US Mass Media

Name: Ida Nikou
E-mail: Ida.nikou@stonybrook.edu
Department: Sociology
University: StonyBrook
Dissertation title: (Working title) Job, Bread, Freedom: Transformation of Capital, State, and Labor Movement in Iran

Name: Miray Philips
E-mail address: phili191@umn.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of Minnesota

Name: Candas Pinar
E-mail address: candas.pinar@yale.edu
Department: Sociology
University: Yale University

Name: Elham Pourtaher
E-mail address: epourtaher@albany.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University at Albany-SUNY
Dissertation title: (Working title) Civic Potentials of Medicalization: the Case of HIV/AIDS in Iran

Name: Huseyin Rasit
E-mail address: huseyin.rasit@yale.edu
Web-page address: http://sociology.yale.edu/people/huseyin-rasit
Department: Sociology
University: Yale University

Name: Şevin Gülfer Sağnıç
E-mail address: ssagnic@ucsd.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of California, San Diego
Dissertation title: Refugee Policies in the Middle East: From the Late Ottoman Empire to Modern Turkey

Name: Sertac K Sen
E-mail: sertac_sen@brown.edu
Department: Anthropology
University: Brown University
Dissertation research: Sunflowers and Gunpowder: Marshaling Development in Turkish Thrace

Name: Katrin Sold
E-mail address: katrin.sold@staff.uni-marburg.de
Web-page address: https://www.uni-marburg.de/cnms/politik/team/professormitarbeiter/sold/curriculum-vitae?set_language=en
Department: Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS)
University: Philipps University Marburg, Germany
Dissertation title: Political Agency of the New Middle Class: Young entrepreneurs as political actors in North Africa

Name: Younasse Tarbouni
E-mail: ytarbouni@wustl.edu
Department: (Political) Sociology
University: CADIS, CNRS-EHESS-Paris, France, and Washingtonian University in St.Louis
Dissertation title: The Arab Century: Opposing trajectories of Arab activism in MENA. What has changed? The case of the Moroccan movement of February 20, 2011

Name: Yasemin Taskin-Alp
E-mail address: ytaskina@ucsd.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of California San Diego
Tentative dissertation title: Islamic Preschools in Istanbul, Turkey

Name: Amirhossein Teimouri
Email: teimour2@illinois.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Name: Hicham Tiflati
E-mail address: tiflati.hicham@courrier.uqam.ca
Department: Religious Studies
University: University of Quebec at Montreal
Dissertation title: Islamic Schooling, Identity, and Citizenship: the Case of Quebec

Name: Bashir Tofangsazi
E-mail address: tofangsazi.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Web-page address: https://sociology.osu.edu/people/tofangsazi.1
Department: Sociology
University: The Ohio State University

Name: Vasfiye Betul Toprak
E-mail address: vbt3gv@virginia.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of Virginia
Dissertation title: Contestations of Political Authority and Political Myth in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire

Name: Omri Tubi
E-mail address: omritubi2015@u.northwestern.edu
Web-page address: https://www.omritubi.com/
Department: Sociology
University: Northwestern University
Research interests: comparative historical analysis; global and transnational sociology; health, science and medicine; sociology of development.
Dissertation title: “We Shall Centralize or We Shall Die:” Building Health Institutions in Palestine and Israel.

Name: Patricia Ward
E-mail address: psward@bu.edu
Department: Sociology
University: Boston University
Dissertation title: How Humanitarian Relief ‘Works’: International Aid Organizations’ Use of Local Labor in Crisis Contexts

Name: Gilad Wenig
E-mail address: gwenig@ucla.edu
Web-page address: https://soc.ucla.edu/person/gilad-wenig/
Department: Sociology
University: UCLA
Research interests: Empire, state formation, civil-military relations, Middle East and North Africa

Name: Keenan Wilder
Email: Keenan_wilder@brown.edu
Department: Sociology
University: Brown University
Dissertation title: Oligarchy with an Iron Fist: Rethinking Union Autonomy and Cooptation in Tunisia, Bahrain and Egypt 

Name: Ella Wind
E-mail address: cew353@nyu.edu
Department: New York University
Research interests: Political economy, violence, labor, social movements, Turkey, Syria

Name: Maro Youssef
E-mail address: Maro@utexas.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of Texas at Austin

Name: Hossein Zahed
E-mail address: h.zahed@utdallas.edu
Department: Political Economy
University: University of Texas at Dallas

Updated on August 24, 2023.