Faculty in Mideast Sociology

Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Social Science Faculty, University of Tehran, and Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University (webpage)

Eman Abdelhadi, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Gender, American Islam, hijab, demography.

Maha Abdelrahman, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge (webpage)

Mohammed Aboelenein, Department of Sociology, United Arab Emirates University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political violence, democracy, globalization, value systems, and time use.

Benjamin Abrams, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge and University College London (Cambridge webpage, UCL webpage)
Areas of specialization: Comparative and historical sociology.

Sinem Adar, Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology, University of South Florida
Areas of specialization: Nation-building and nationalism, citizenship, belonging, and religion.

Anaheed Al-Hardan, Department of Sociology, American University of Beruit (webpage)

Maryam Alemzadeh, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University

Zahra Ali, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Gender, feminisms, social movements, Middle East, Iraq, Islam(s), capitalism, post/decoloniality

Eitan Alimi, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (webpage)

Anahi Alviso-Marino, post-doctoral associated researcher at the French Centre for Archaeology and Social Sciences in Sanaa/Kuwait (CEFAS), the European Centre for Sociology and Political Science (CESSP, France), and the Research Centre for Political Action (CRAPUL, University of Lausanne) (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political sociology of visual arts, social history of visual arts, domination, contentious politics, focus on Yemen, Kuwait and Oman.

Rawan Arar, Department of Law, Societies, and Justice, University of Washington (webpage)

Nurullah Ardiç, Department of Sociology, Istanbul Sehir University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Historical sociology, religion and politics in the Middle East, Ottoman-Turkish modernization, social theory, globalization, historical-comparative methods, discourse analysis.

Said Arjomand, Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University (webpage)

Zeynep Atalay, Department of Sociology, St. Mary’s College of California (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Globalization, transnational social movements and civil society, faith-based NGO networks, religion and politics, political Islam.

Yildiz Atasoy, Department of Sociology, Simon Fraser University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political sociology, global political economy, historical capitalism, neoliberalism, social change and development, citizenship, gender relations, Islamic politics, agrifood systems, supermarket expansion, Turkey, Middle East, European Union.

Amy Austin-Holmes, Department of Sociology, American University in Cairo (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political sociology, social movements/revolutions, critical security studies.

Sencer Ayata, Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University (webpage)

Taghi Azadarmaki, Social Science Faculty, University of Tehran

Bali Bahadur, Post Graduate Department of Sociology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (Punjab), India (webpage)
Area of specialization: Emigration of Dalits (Lower Caste) from the Doaba Region of Punjab State in India to the Middle East, particularly to GCC countries.

Vida Bajc (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Christians in Jerusalem, religion and the State, historical-comparative study of surveillance/security in collective public life, cultural performance and framing.

Mohammed Bamyeh, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh (webpage)

Karen Barkey, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (webpage)

Yesim Bayar, Department of Sociology, St. Lawrence University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: State-minority relations, nationalism, transformations from empires to nations, minority rights, state-making, and social change.

Asef Bayat, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (webpage)

Anne Marie Baylouny, National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, and Associated Scholar, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Social movements in the developing world, Implications of large-scale forced migration, Syrian refugees, grassroots social welfare organizing in economic liberalization, Islamism.

Maya Beasley, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Terrorism, radicalization, Islamic Diaspora.

Johannes Becker, Center of Methods in Social Sciences, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Biographical research, family sociology, historical sociology, ethnography, mobility and migration, urban sociology.

Nachman Ben Yehudah, Department of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (webpage)

Robert J. Brym, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Collective violence during the second intifada.

Elizabeth Buckner, Teachers College, Columbia University (webpage)

Louise Cainkar, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Arab and Muslim American communities; Arab and Muslim American experiences after 9/11; US government policies towards Arabs and Muslims in the US after 9/11.

Ryan Calder, Department of Sociology and Islamic Studies, Johns Hopkins University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Islamic law, jurisprudence (fiqh), and pious practice under conditions of contemporary capitalism and globalization.

Naomi Carmon, Department of Sociology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Culture-sensitive urban planning; Jewish-Arab relationships; housing and neighborhoods in urban and rural areas and in mixed cities in Israel.

Benoit Challand, Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research (website)
Areas of specialization: Civil society in Palestine and Tunisia; mobilization and the Arab Uprisings; politics of foreign aid; Islamic charities; Palestinian politics; the myth of the clash of civilizations.

Mounira Charrad, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political Sociology; Social Theory; Colonialism; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Gender and Women’s Rights; Middle East and North Africa.

Andy Clarno, Sociology and African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political economy, race and ethnicity, neoliberalism, settler colonialism, securitization, Palestine/Israel, South Africa

Shana Cohen, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (webpage)

Randi Deguilhem, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Recherche et d’Étude sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman, and Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, University of Provence (webpage)
Areas of specialization: 1) Concepts and pratices of the secularization of public education in the 19th century Ottoman Tanzimat Empire and their social effects on society; 2) Legal and social history of the waqf endowments in Ottoman, colonial and independent Syria.

Ipek Demir, Department of Sociology, University of Leicester (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Kurdish studies, with a particular focus on Turkey; Kurdish movements in diaspora.

Hamid Ebadollahi Chanzanagh, Department of Social Sciences, University of Guilan (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Historical sociology, Iranian social history, Iranian collective memory, Safavid Iran.

Yildiz Ecevit, Department of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies Graduate Program, Middle East Technical University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Women’s labour; women’s entrepreneurship; gender and social policy; gender and civil society.

Betul Eksi, Global Resilience Institute, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Northeastern University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political sociology, gender, policing, the state, political masculinities, Turkish National Police, sanctuary cities, immigration.

el-Sayed el-Aswad, Department of Sociology, United Arab Emirates University (webpage and personal webpage)
Areas of specialization: Worldviews-religion (Islam and Middle East), cosmology (Egypt and Arab Gulf countries), Arab-Muslim diaspora (Arab American-Dearborn, Michigan), symbolic anthropology, heritage, folklore, and cyberspace.

Youssef El Chazli, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University (webpage)

Sinan Erensü, Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political ecology and economy, urban and rural studies, global and environmental sociology, political sociology, international development, with a specific focus on energy disputes and infrastructural politics.

Ali Fathollah-Nejad, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Middle East geopolitics; state and society in Iran; class and politics in Iran; the Arab Revolts vs. the Green Movement.

Yuval Feinstein, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Ethnicity and nationalism, political sociology, sociology of war, public opinion, political emotions, research methods.

Michelle I. Gawerc, Department of Sociology, Loyola University Maryland (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Peace, war, and social conflict; social movements; organizational studies; and Israel/Palestine.

Basak Gemici, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of gender, race, and ethnic relations, authoritarian populism, ethnography, Turkey.

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University (webpage)

Elham Gheytanchi, Department of Sociology, Santa Monica College (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Social movements in the Middle East and North Africa; women’s movements in post-revolutionary Iran; socio-political analysis of contemporary Iran.

Fatma Müge Göçek, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan (webpage)

Deniz Gokalp, School of Arts and Sciences, American University in Dubai (webpage)
Areas of specializiation: Political and comparative historical sociology more specifically, issues of political violence and militarism, neoliberalism, democracy, mobilization and contentious politics, identity politics and political identity, globalization, regionalization and transnational forces/processes.

Nilüfer Göle, Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (webpage)

Ozlem Goner, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Staten Island, City University of New York (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political Sociology, Memory and Identity, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements, Social Theory, and Qualitative Methodology.

Brandon Gorman, Department of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Tunisia, Middle East, social conflict, and collective identity.

Mark Gould, Department of Sociology, Haverford College (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Social Theory, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Law and Sociology, Historical Sociology.

Heba Gowayed, Department of Sociology, Boston University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Heba Gowayed takes a global and comparative approach to examine how low-income people traverse social services, immigration laws, and their associated bureaucracies, while grappling with gender and racial inequalities.

Jeff Guhin, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (webpage)

Mustafa Gurbuz, Department of Sociology, American University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Islamic social movements, political violence & terrorism, Muslim ethnic minorities.

Sari Hanafi, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, American University of Beirut (webpage)

Alex Hanna, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology and the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto (webpage)

Kevan Harris, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (webpage)
Areas of Specialization: Political Economy, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Welfare States in the Global South, Labor and Social Movements, Contemporary Iran.

Manata Hashemi, Department of International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma (webpage)
Areas of Specialization: Poverty, Inequality, Morality, Youth, Ethnography, Iran.

Frances S. Hasso, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: social movements, states, transnationalism; subjectivity and identity; gender and sexuality.

Sune Haugbølle, Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, social memory, mass media, ideology.

Joshua Hendrick, Department of Sociology, Loyola University of Maryland (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Islamic political identity, elite-level social change, and processes of democratization/global integration in Turkey.

Mary Hovsepian, Department of Sociology, Duke University (webpage)

Saad Ibrahim, Department of Sociology, American University in Cairo, and Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies (webpage)

Muneer Illath, Department of Sociology, Kannur University Centre, Mananthavady, Wayanad, India (e-mail)
Areas of specialization: The culture of entrepreneurship among South Indian Muslims in India and the Gulf.

Ali Kadivar, Department of Sociology, Boston College (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Politics, comparative historical analysis, social movements, authoritarianism, democracy, Iran.

Hazem Kandil, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge (webpage)

Ercan Karakoc, Department of History, Yildiz Technical University
Areas of specialization: Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish History, Ottoman and Turkish Foreign Policy.

Daniel Karell, Department of Sociology, Yale University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Nation-building and nationalism, ethnicity, electoral politics, conflict and post-conflict development, North Africa, Afghanistan

Resat Kasaba, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington (webpage)

Yunus Kaya, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul University

Randa Kayyali, Department of Sociology, American University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Arab Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, nationalism, community, citizenship, social movements, sociology of religion, Eastern Christianity.

Tugrul Keskin, Center for Turkish Studies and Center for Global Studies, Shanghai University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Modern Uyghur Nationalism, China and the Middle East, US Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era.

Samer Khalaf, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, American University of Beirut (webpage)

Laleh Khalili, Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London (webpage).
Areas of specialization: Political violence, nationalism, war and counterinsurgency, resistance and political mobilisation, women and gender, refugees and interstitial populations, collective memory, crossing boundaries of comparative and international politics, political/historical sociology of Palestine.

Aziza Khazzoom, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington (webpage)

Farhad Khosrokhavar, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (webpage)
Areas of specialization: sociology of modern Iran (particularly after the Islamic Revolution); Radical Islam in the Middle East; Muslims in Europe (particularly France), related to North Africa and Middle East.

Alaz Kilicaslan, Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Sociology of health and medicine, global health, economic sociology, work and organizations, sociology of migration, social inequalities, and society and politics of the Middle East.

Augustine Kposowa, Department of Sociology, University of California, Riverside (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Demography, epidemiology, political economy, and racial/ethnic inequality.

Talip Kucukcan, director, Institute for Middle East Studies, Marmara University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Comparative secularism, state-religion relations, freedom of religion in Turkey; Turkish and Muslim diaspora in Europe.

Mirjam Künkler, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen – Lichtenberg-Kolleg (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Issues relating to law, religion-state relations, religious authority and government in contemporary Iran and Indonesia.

Charles Kurzman, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Iran, Middle East, comparative study of Islamic movements, political sociology, social theory.

Marnia Lazreg, Department of Sociology, City University of New York – Hunter College (webpage)

Seungah S. Lee, Program in Social Research and Public Policy, New York University Abu Dhabi (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Comparative education, higher education, entrepreneurship, organizations, youth, Arab Gulf.

Eric Lob, Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University (webpage)

Mojtaba Mahdavi, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Contemporary social movements and democratization in the Muslim world; secularism, Islamism, and post-Islamism; modern Islamic political thought; and political economy, comparative politics and international relations of the Middle East and North Africa.

Rima Majed, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies, American University of Beirut (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Ethnicity, sectarianism, conflict, social movements, political sociology.

Nada Matta, Global Studies and Sociology, Drexel University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political Economy, Social Movements, Middle East Studies, Gender Studies, Revolutions, Inequality

Yasuyuki Matsunaga, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Politics and Religion in Contemporary Iran, Reformist Trends in Shi’ite Islam, Comparative Democratization, Secularization.

Katherine Meyer, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Social change, democracy, gender, conflict, religion, the state.

Ali Mirsepassi, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Social theories of modernity, comparative and historical sociology, sociology of religion, Middle Eastern societies and cultures, Islam and social change.

Mansoor Moaddel, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Iran, Middle East, survey research, comparative-historical sociology.

Valentine M. Moghadam, Department of Sociology and Program in International Affairs, Northeastern University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Sociology of gender, gender and development, globalization and transnational social movements, sociology and political economy of the Middle East and North Africa.

Haideh Moghissi, Department of Sociology, York University (webpage)

Dana Moss, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame (webpage)

Ghassan Moussawi, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (webpage)

Yasser Munif, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Colonial history, racial identities, the production of postcolonial space in marginal sites in France and its colonial territories, and the importance of urban settings in shaping national identities during the Arab revolts.

Daniel Neep, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Syria, the Mashriq, empire, state formation, state violence, authoritarianism, military politics, post-colonial critique, historical sociology, political sociology.

Neema Noori, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of West Georgia University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Proliferation of private American-style universities in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf; post-Soviet political and social change in Central Asia.

Nazek Nosseir, Department of Sociology, American University in Cairo (webpage)

Pavel Osinsky, Department of Sociology, Appalachian State University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Comparative historical sociology, sociology of empires.

Zeynep Ozgen, Social Research and Public Policy, New York University, Abu Dhabi (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political sociology, social movements, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, social theory, Islam.

Sarah Parkinson, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political violence, social network analysis, organizational decision making (with a focus on militant organizations and political parties), postwar development, and qualitative methods.

Misagh Parsa, Department of Sociology, Dartmouth College (webpage)

Silvia Pasquetti, School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology, Newcastle University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political sociology, urban sociology, law and society, ethnography, refugees and displacement.

Tyson Patros, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political sociology, social and labor movements, revolutions, welfare states, social democracy, constitutions, comparative-historical sociology

Efe Peker, Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Comparative-historical sociology, sociology of religion and secularity, populism and nationalism, state building and social movements.

Thomas Pierret, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Middle East, Syria, Islam and politics, Religious authority, Muslim Scholars, Sufi brotherhoods, Salafism, Reformism, Islamic Charities, Authoritarianism.

Stephen Poulson, Department of Sociology, James Madison University (webpage)

Anne Price, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Valdosta State University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Factors affecting individual willingness to engage in political action in the middle east, women’s mobilization against sexual harassment in Cairo, and gender and social movements in the Middle East.

Babak Rahimi, Program for the Study of Religion, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Public sphere, civil society, Iran, Iraq and Turkey.

Roberta Ricucci, Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Turin (Italy) (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Migration, integration studies, second generations & educational paths, religion, Muslims in Western countries, intercultural policies, interethnic-relations.

Daniel Ritter, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University (webpage)

Helen Rizzo, Department of Sociology, Egyptology and Anthropology, American University in Cairo (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political sociology, with a focus on democratization and development in the Middle East, and stratification, particularly gender and race/ethnic inequality.

Zeev Rosenhek, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, Open University of Israel (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Economic sociology, state-economy relations, the political economy of the welfare state, financialization and the neoliberal state.

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Areas of specialization: Palestine/Israel, Palestinians in Israel, settler colonialism, memory and knowledge production.

Ahmad Sadri, Department of Sociology, Lake Forest College (webpage)

Mahmoud Sadri, Department of Sociology, Texas Women’s University (webpage)

Atef Said, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Social movements, revolutions, political sociology, sociological theory and the Middle East.

Rania Salem, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Scarborough (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Gender, family, economic sociology, development and the Middle East.

Zakia Salime, Departments of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Transnational feminisms, gender, social movements, globalization(s), international development, empire, Islamic movements, Middle East.

Armando Salvatore, Faculty of Religious Studies, Religion and Culture Area, McGill University (webpage)

Evren Savci, Department of Women and Gender Studies, San Francisco State University (webpage)

Scott Schaffer, Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario (webpage)

Emily Schneider, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Northern Arizona University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Transnational studies, tourism, Israel/Palestine, diaspora, social movements, qualitative methods, nationalism, and identity.

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Rider University (website)
Areas of specialization: American and German Islam Policy, Comparative Studies America-Mideast-Europe, Mideastern Focus: Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Iraq.

Seyed Hossein Serajzadeh, Department of Sociology, Kharazmi University, Iran (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Social problems of Iran, sociology of religion.

Gershon Shafir, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego (webpage)

Nazanin Shahrokni, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University (webpage)

Maia Sieverding, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut (webpage)

Sammy Smooha, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa (webpage)

Tamir Sorek, Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University (webpage)

Kathryn Spellman, International Relations and Social Sciences, Huron University (webpage)

Georg Stauth, Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University (webpage)

Rita Stephan, Survey Statistician, Ancestry and Ethnicity Branch, Population Division, US Census Bureau (rita.stephan@census.gov)
Area of specialization: Arab-Americans, Lebanon, social movements, women’s movements, and peace and conflict.

Edith Szanto, Department of Religious Studies, University of Alabama (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Contemporary Shi’ism, Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, Sufism, popular Islam, gender and Islam, Islamic rituals, Islamic material culture.

Günes Murat Tezcür, Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Kurdish studies, Iran, Turkey, sociology of religion, ethnic and religious movements.

Farha Ternikar, Department of Sociology, Le Moyne College (webpage)
Areas of specialization: gender/religion, immigration, women unveiling in the U.S.

Cihan Tugal, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley (webpage)

Berna Turam, Departments of Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political sociology, state-society interaction, Muslim politics, civil society and democratization in the Middle East, religion in international affairs.

Gulay Turkmen, Department of Sociology, University of Goettingen (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Sociology of religion, political sociology, comparative-historical sociology, ethnicity, nationalism, identity formation, immigration, collective memory and trauma.

Didem Turkoglu, Kadis Has University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Political sociology, social movements, welfare states.

Daniel Martin Varisco, President, American Institute for Yemeni Studies (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Ethnographic research and development work in Yemen, Egypt, Qatar; historical research on Islamic agriculture and folk astronomy; Orientalism; cyberOrient; representation of Islam.

Stephen Vertigans, School of Applied Social Studies, Robert Gordon University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Muslim communities, terrorism and religion, especially resurgent and militant Islam.

Fabio Vicini, Department of Political Science and International Relations, 29 Mayis University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Sociology and Anthropology of Islam, the Comparative Sociology of Religions, Ethics, Islamic Philosophy, Religion and Politics in Turkey and the Middle East.

Shafique N. Virani, Departments of History and Religious Studies, University of Toronto (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Islamic history, philosophy, Sufism, Shi’ism, and Islamic literatures in Persian, Arabic, and South Asian languages.

John O. Voll, Department of History, Georgetown University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Islamic movements in the modern world utilizing aspects of social movement theory, both militant movements and more explicitly non-violent organizations like Sufi orders.

Heidemarie Winkel, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld/Cambridge University (webpages at Bielefeld and Cambridge)
Areas of specialization: gender, religion, Arab modernities.

Jonathan Wyrtzen, Department of Sociology and MacMillan Center, Yale University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: North African society and politics; state formation; colonialism and empire; ethnicity and nationalism; urban and rural contentious politics; and Islamic social movements.

Haj Yazdiha, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California (webpage)

Emrah Yıldız, Department of Sociology, Ankara Haci Bayram Veli University (webpage)

Erdem Yörük, Department of Sociology, Koç University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Social movements, welfare state, social policy, Turkey, Kurdish movement, electoral politics, computational social sciences, comparative sociology, political sociology.

Kathryn Yount, Department of Sociology, Emory University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: International demography; gender and social inequality; determinants and effects of health outcomes across the life course; marriage, family, and intergenerational relations; qualitative and quantitative research methods for the social sciences.

Gökçe Yurdakul, Department of Sociology, Brock University (webpage)

Bradley J. Zopf, Department of Sociology, Carthage College (webpage)

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

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Updated on April 2, 2024.