Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Director of Center for Middle East Studies (2012-present) and Associate Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver (2008-present); Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California-Los Angeles and Global Fellow, UCLA International Institute (2007-2008); Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University (2005-2007); Research Affiliate, Center for Middle Easter Studies, Harvard University (2005-2006); Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto (2004-2005); Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo (2003-2004). Author of many articles and other publications, most recently in Philosophy & Social Criticism and Constellations. Author of Islam, Secularism, and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Oxford University Press, 2009) and co-editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future (Melville House, 2011) and The Syria Dilemma (MIT Press, 2013).
Discipline
International Relations/Affairs
Sub Areas
Comparative
Theory
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Current Events
Democratization
Development
Iranian Studies
Modernization
World History
Human Rights
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Iran
Islamic World
Indonesia
Turkey
Arab States
Specialties
Comp Pol Theory
Democ & Democrztn
Secularism & Pol Islam
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Persian (fluent)
Education
DPhil
| 2005
| Political Science
| University of Toronto
Abstracts
Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring: Toward a New Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies
The Sectarianization of the Syrian Conflict: The Salience of Authoritarianism over Theology
