Charles Kurzman
Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Teaching:

Sociology 250, "Social Theory," Fall 2007.
Sociology 700, Graduate Course, "Social Theory," Fall 2007.
Sociology 273, "Social and Economic Justice," Spring 2007.
Sociology 950.2
, 1-credit Graduate Course, "Middle East Politics," Spring 2007.
Sociology 119, "Sociology of Islam," Spring 2006.
Sociology 326.6, Graduate Course, "Celebrity Status," Spring 2005 (now a major motion picture).

Sociology 311, Graduate Course, "Political Sociology," Fall 2003.
Bad advice to graduate students, from a fellow graduate student in the throes of dissertation-writing.
Good advice on writing. Good advice on framing novel arguments. Good advice on networking.

Islamic and Middle Eastern studies:

Islamic statements against terrorism in the wake of the September 11 mass murders.

Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations.
   - Upcoming Carolina events related to Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.

Middle East Sociology Working Group.

The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (Harvard University Press, 2004) (or Amazon.com).

Liberal Islam: A Source-Book, edited by Charles Kurzman (Oxford University Press, 1998).
   - Liberal Islam web links.
   - Click to order book from Oxford University Press or Amazon.com.

Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Source-Book, edited by Charles Kurzman (Oxford University Press, 2002).
   - Click to order book from Oxford University Press or Amazon.com.

Iranian Family Attitudes Survey.

Some of my articles and lectures:
  -  Xenophobia in Wartime America, "The State of Things," WUNC-FM, December 6, 2007.
   - Welcome to World Peace, Christian Science Monitor, August 30, 2006 (with Neil Englehart).
   - Bin Laden and Other Thoroughly Modern Muslims, Contexts Magazine, Fall-Winter 2002
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   - Convocation Address: On Approaching the Qur'an, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, August 18, 2002.
   - Who Speaks for Islam Today?, News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), December 2, 2001.
   - Understanding the Attack on America, speech at peace rally, Chapel Hill, N.C., September 17, 2001.
   - Lost Opportunities: Limits of U.S. Support for Constitutionalism in Iran, The Iranian, April 19, 2000.
   - Liberal Islam: Prospects and Challenges (html version), Middle East Review of International Affairs, September 1999.
   - more articles available through my curriculum vitae.

Mr. Fish, Democracy Bomb
Mr. Fish, "A Cartoon," Harper's Magazine Online, July 19, 2007

From J. Clement, "Reflections on [the National Arts Council of Canada] Turning Fifty," National Post, 2007

From Gary Clement, "Reflections on [the Canada Council for the Arts] Turning 50,"
National Post, April 5, 2007


Turkish airline tomfoolery

Unidentified photograph, purchased in Istanbul, Turkey, May 2008

My address:
C. Kurzman
Department of Sociology
CB#3210, 155 Hamilton Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
kurzman@unc.edu (e-mail)
(1) (919) 962-1007 (phone)
(1) (919) 962-7568 (fax)
http://www.unc.edu/~kurzman (web)
Curriculum vitae

Updated May 12, 2008.