Mona Abaza, Department of Sociology, American University in Cairo (webpage)

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

Maha Abdel Rahman, Department of Sociology, American University in Cairo (webpage)

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

Elif Andac, Department of Sociology, Kansas University (webpage)

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

Yildiz Atasoy, Department of Sociology, Simon Fraser University (webpage)

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

Taghi Azadarmaki, Social Science Faculty, University of Tehran

Vida Bajc, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Surveillance Project, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: culture, religion, theory, deviance/social control, urban studies, globalization/transnational processes, and ethnography/qualitative methods. Research focus: group interaction, cultural performance and framing, forms of social control, cross-cultural relations, religion and the state.

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

Karen Barkey, Department of Sociology, Columbia University (webpage)

Asef Bayat, Departments of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies and International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden University (webpage)

Anne Marie Baylouny, International Comparative & Area Studies, Stanford University, and National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Social movements in the developing world, Islamism, Lebanon and the Levant politics, grassroots social welfare organizing in economic liberalization, civil society.

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.

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.

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.

Mounira Charrad, Department of Sociology, University of Texas (webpage)

Shana Cohen, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield (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.

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.

Elham Gheytanchi, Department of Sociology, Santa Monica College (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Iran, reformist movements, women's rights movements, marginality

Deniz Gokalp, Middle Eastern Studies Program, Maxwell School of Syracuse University (webpage)
Research interests  include 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)

Frances S. Hasso, Department of Sociology and Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Oberlin College (webpage)
Areas of specialization: social movements, states, transnationalism; subjectivity and identity; gender and sexuality.

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.

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

Yunus Kaya, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Wilmington (webpage)

Tugrul Keskin, International and Middle Eastern Studies, Portland State University (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Sociological theories, post-colonial theory, sociology of Islam and Middle East, Islamic movements, sociology of Africa (imperialism and re-colonization in Africa after 1950s), modern Kurdish, Uyghur and Turkish nationalism. 

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

Aziza Khazzoom, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (webpage)

Farhad Khosrokhavar, École des hautes études en sciences sociales; visiting professor at Yale (2008), Harvard (2009) (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.

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

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

Farshad Malek-Ahmadi, Department of Social Sciences, Naugatuck Valley Community College
Areas of specialization: Iran, Middle East, politics, law, culture, revolutions, religion, gender roles

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

Mansoor Moaddel, Department of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University, and Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Iran, Middle East, survey research, comparative-historical sociology.

Valentine M. Moghadam, Department of Sociology and Women's Studies Program, Purdue 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)

Daniel Neep, Department of Politics, University of Exeter (webpage)
Areas of specialization: Syria, the Mashriq, empire, state formation, state violence, authoritarianism, military politics, post-colonial critique, historical sociology, political sociology.

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

Misagh Parsa, Department of Sociology, Dartmouth College (webpage

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

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.

Helen Rizzo, Department of Sociology, 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.

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

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

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, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (webpage)

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

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, Tarbiat Moallem University, Tehran, Iran (webpage)
Areas of specialization: social problems of Iran, sociology of religion.

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

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

Tamir Sorek, Department of Sociology, University of Florida (webpage)

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

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

Güneş Murat Tezcür, Department of Political Science, Loyola University Chicago (webpage)
Areas of specialization: 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.

Daniel Martin Varisco, Department of Anthropology, Hofstra University (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.

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.

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.

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)


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