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
Year of expected completion of dissertation

Name: Zeynep Atalay
E-mail address: zatalay@socy.umd.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of Maryland, College Park
Dissertation title: Global Islam: Challenging Western Models of Global Civil Society
Year of expected completion of dissertation: Spring 2011

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: Ryan Calder
E-mail address: rcalder@berkeley.edu
Web-page address
Department: Sociology
University: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation title: A Sociology of Islamic Finance in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, and Yemen (tentative)
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2011

Name: Tabitha Decker
E-mail address: tabitha.decker@yale.edu
Web-page address: N/A
Department: Sociology
University: Yale University
Dissertation title: Transporting the Superlative City: The Meaning and Making of the Dubai Metro
Year of expected completion of dissertation: Spring 2011

Name: Rezvaneh Ganji
E-mail address: ganjr455@newschool.edu
Department: Sociology
University: The New School
Dissertation Title: Not yet determined

Name: Nir Gazit
E-mail address: msngazit@mscc.huji.ac.il
Web-page address
Department: Sociology and Cultural Anthropology
University: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dissertation title: Routine Politics and Violence: The Creation of Fragmented Sovereignty in the Occupied Territories
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2008

Name: James Gibbon
E-mail address: jgibbon@princeton.edu
Web-page address: http://jimgibbon.com
Department: Sociology
University: Princeton University
Dissertation title: Sermons of the State:  Religious Regulation and the Production of Islamic Sermons in Turkey
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2009

Name: Brandon Gorman
E-mail address: bgor@unc.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dissertation title: Not yet determined

Name: Mustafa Gurbuz
E-mail address: mustafa.gurbuz@uconn.edu
Web-page address: homepages.uconn.edu/~mug05001
Department: Sociology
University: University of Connecticut
Dissertation title: Kurdish Ethnic and Islamic Mobilizations in Turkey: A Study of Rival Movements"
Date of completion of dissertation: Spring 2011

Name: Kevan Harris
E-mail address: kevan@jhu.edu
Department: Sociology
University: Johns Hopkins University
Dissertation title: The Martyrs' Welfare State: Social Bases of the Post-Revolutionary Regime in Iran.

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
Dissertation title: to be determined
Expected completion: 2013


Name: Joshua D. Hendrick
E-mail address: jhendric@ucsc.edu
Department: Department of Sociology
University: University of California, Santa Cruz
(Tentative) Dissertation Title: Marketized Islam: Global Integration and New Islamic Activism in Turkey
Date of expected completion of dissertation: December 2008

Name: Ben Herzog
E-mail address: ben.herzog@yale.edu
Web-page address: http://www.yale.edu/sociology/graduate/students/#herzog
Department: Department of Sociology
University: Yale University
Dissertation title: The Loss of Citizenship: Regulating Allegiance in Canada, Israel and the US.
Year of expected completion of dissertation: Spring 2009

Name: Nika Kabiri
Email: nkabiri@u.washington.edu
Web-page address: http://students.washington.edu/nkabiri
Department: Sociology
University: University of Washington
Dissertation title: Cleavage Structures in Muslim Countries
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2009

Name: Ali Kadivar
Email: kadivar@email.unc.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dissertation title: Not yet determined

Name: Burcak Keskin Kozat
E-mail address: burcak2@gmail.com
Web-page address
Department: Sociology
University: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dissertation title: Negotiating Modernization through U.S. Foreign Assistance: Turkey's Marshall Plan Re-interpreted (1947-1952)
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2007

Name: Yusuf Küçük
E-mail address: yusuf74@gmail.com
Department: Sociology
University: İstanbul Üniversitesi (Istanbul University)
Dissertation title: Not yet determined.
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2011

Name: A. Tuna Kuyucu
E-mail address: kuyucu@u.washington.edu
Web-page address: N/A
Department: Sociology
University: University of Washington
Dissertation title: "Urban Transformation" or Neoliberal Rent-Seeking: The Political Economy of Slum Clearance and Social Housing Programs in Istanbul
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2009

Name: Hilal Ozcetin
E-mail address: hoa1@sfu.ca
Department: Sociology and Anthropology
University: Simon Fraser University
Dissertation title: 'New Oriental' Female Body: Islam in Global Age
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2012

Name: Silvia Pasquetti
E-mail address: sipas@berkeley.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of California, Berkeley
Tentative dissertation title: Palestinian Refugees and Citizens: A Comparative Ethnography of Urban Marginality and Political Conflict
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2011

Name: Thomas Pierret
E-mail address: thomaspierret@yahoo.fr
University: FNRS - University of Louvain (UCL) - Sciences-Po Paris (IEP)
Dissertation topic: contemporary Syrian ulema, focusing on the social and political factors that explain their liveliness despite the purported decline of the traditional conceptions of religious authority. In this framework, he underlines the role played since the mid-20th century by ulema-led social movements rooted in the Sufi tradition.

Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2010

Name: Refika Sarionder
E-mail address: rsarionder@yahoo.com
Web-page address
Department: Sociology
University: University of Bielefeld, Germany
Dissertation title: The Alevis: Political Publicity and the Transformation of the Religious
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2008

Name: Meltem Yilmaz Sener
E-mail address:  myilmaz2@uiuc.edu
Web-page address
Department: Sociology
University: Univerity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation title: World Bank's Risk Management Approach to Poverty: 'Social Risk Mitigation Project' in Turkey
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2009

Name: Nazanin Shahrokni
E-mail address: nazanin@berkeley.edu
Department: Sociology
University: University of California-Berkeley
Dissertation title: Gender Segregated Spaces: Traversing the "Public" in the Islamic Republic of Iran (tentative)
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2011

Name: Maia Sieverding
E-mail: msieverding@berkeley.edu
Web-page address
Department: Sociology
University: University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation title: Not yet determined.  Current research focuses on gender and higher education in Egypt.  
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2013

Name: Rita Stephan
E-mail address: rita.stephan@gmail.com
Web-page address: https://webspace.utexas.edu/ratrouta/RitaStephan.pdf
Department: Sociology and Center for Women's and Gender Studies
University: University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation title: The Family and the Making of Women's Rights Activism in Lebanon
Year of expected completion of dissertation: 2008