EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology, 1992.
• M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Department of Sociology, 1987.
• B.A., Harvard University, Committee on Social Studies, 1986.

• Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004-2008.
• Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, School of Historical Studies, 2002-2003.
• Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998-2004.
• Assistant Professor of Sociology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, 1994-1997.
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1993.

• The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004). One hundred days before the Pahlavi monarchy crumbled, the CIA predicted that the regime would remain stable. Even many of the Iranian revolutionaries were pessimistic about the prospects for ousting the shah. This book argues that these people were not misguided - rather, revolutions and other social movements are inherently unpredictable. Using recently published documents from Iran, as well as interviews with participants in the revolution and other eyewitness sources, the book develops an "anti-explanation" for the revolution that focuses on the uncertainty, the rumors, and the danger that Iranians felt in 1977-1979. Such conditions undermine attempts to predict the revolution retroactively, but they help bridge cross-cultural gaps in understanding what Iranians were going through when they decided to protest against the shah.
  
• Democracy Denied, 1905-1915 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008). On Monday, October 30, 1905, late in the afternoon, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia signed a one-page document promising to respect civil rights, share power with a parliament, and hold free elections. This was the first revolution covered "live" by international telegraph services, and within days news of the tsar's manifesto appeared in newspapers all over the world. Thus began a global wave of democratic revolutions consuming more than a quarter of the world's population: Russia (1905-07), Iran (1906-08 and 1909-11), the Ottoman Empire (1908-09), Portugal (1910-26), Mexico (1910-13), and China (1911-13). The social carrier of democracy at this time was the emerging class of modern intellectuals, whose democratic alliance soon crumbled when intellectuals attempted to govern in accordance with their positivist ideology. The bourgeoisie abandoned "bourgeois democracy"; anti-democracy alliances outmaneuvered the intellectuals to secure international support from the Great Powers; and the democratic path to national development was replaced with developmental dictatorships for the following decades. (Introductory chapter in PDF file.)

• Editorial Board Member, Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, 2nd edition, edited by Robert Wuthnow (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2007).
• Editor, Special Section on Social Scientific Analyses of Terrorism, Social Forces, Vol. 84, No. 4, June 2006, pp. 1957-2046.
• Second Editor, with Michaelle Browers, An Islamic Reformation? (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004). For more than a century, Muslims and Western observers have drawn an analogy between recent developments in Islam and the Protestant Reformation in Christianity, some to claim that an Islamic Reformatino has occurred, some to predict that it will soon occur, and some to assert that it has not or cannot occur. This volume collects essays by nine authors on various aspects of the analogy, continuing the debate over the meaningfulness of this particular comparison, and of cross-cultural and temporal comparisons more generally. An introductory essay by the authors traces the main uses of the analogy since the late 19th century. (Introductory chapter in PDF file.)
• Editor, Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Source-Book (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). Prepared by a team of two dozen area specialists, this anthology covers the century when the Modernist Islamic movement first became prominent in many regions of the Islamic world, generating tremendous intellectual ferment by attempting to reconcile Islamic faith and modern ideals. The Modernist Islamic movement went into eclipse in the 1930s, supplanted by secular projects on one hand (primarily nationalism and socialism) and by different religious projects on the other (traditionalist and revivalist). In recent years, liberal Islamic thinkers, once again attempting to reconcile Islamic and modern values, have begun to resuscitate the reputation and accomplishments of the Modernist Islamic movement. At the same time, Western scholars are beginning to recognize, as they have not before, the extent of Modernist Islamic activities and their importance in Islamic history. This anthology contributes to the recovery of this important intellectual resource by translating into English, annotating, and publishing in a single volume selections from 52 influential representatives of the Modernist Islamic movement, along with an analytical introductory essay. The anthology also serves as a counterexample to the popular image of a permanent clash of civilizations between Islam and the West. (Introductory chapter in PDF file.)
• Editor, Liberal Islam: A Source-Book (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). Translated into Indonesian as Wacana Islam Liberal (Jakarta: Penerbit Paramadina, 2001). "Liberal Islam" is not a contradiction in terms; it is a thriving tradition and undergoing a revival within the last generation. This anthology presents the work of 32 prominent Muslims who are share parallel concerns with Western liberalism: separation of church and state, democracy, the rights of women and minorities, freedom of thought, and human progress. Although the West has largely ignored the liberal tradition within Islam, many of these authors are well-known in their own countries as advocates of democracy and tolerance. (Introductory chapter in PDF file.)

• “A Feminist Generation in Iran?” Iranian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 3, June 2008, pp. 297-321.  (Abstract.)
• "Meaning-Making in Social Movements," introduction to special section of the same name, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 1, Winter 2008, pp. 5-15. (PDF file.)
• "Celebrity Status," first author with Chelise Anderson, Clinton Key, Youn Ok Lee, Mairead Moloney, Alexis Silver, and Maria W. Van Ryn, Sociological Theory, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 2007, pp. 347-367. (PDF file.)
• "Cross-Regional Approaches to Middle East Studies," Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 41, No. 1, June 2007, pp. 24-29. (PDF file.)
• "Dilemmas of Electoral Clientelism: Taiwan, 1993," second author with Chin-Shou Wang, International Political Science Review, Vol. 28, No. 2, March 2007, pp. 225-245. (PDF file.)
• "The Logistics: How to Buy Votes," second author with Chin-Shou Wang, in Frederic Charles Schaffer, editor, Elections for Sale: The Causes and Consequences of Vote Buying (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007), pp. 61-78. (PDF file.)
• "Welcome to World Peace," second author with Neil Englehart, Social Forces, Vol. 84, No. 4, June 2006, pp. 1957-1967. Introduction to special section on Social Scientific Studies of Terrorism. (PDF file.)
  
• "Weaving Iran into the Tree of Nations," International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 137-165. (PDF file.)
  
• "Globalizing Social Movement Theory: The Case of Eugenics," second author with Deborah Barrett, Theory and Society, Vol. 33, No. 5, October 2004, pp. 487-527. (PDF file.)
  
• "Can Understanding Undermine Explanation? The Confused Experience of Revolution," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 3, September 2004, pp. 328-351. (PDF file.)
• "Intellectuals and Democratization, 1905-1912 and 1989-1996," first author with Erin Leahey, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 109, No. 4, January 2004, pp. 937-986. (PDF file.)
• "Comparing Reformations," first author with Michaelle Browers, in Michaelle Browers and Charles Kurzman, editors, An Islamic Reformation? (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004), pp. 1-17. (PDF file.)
• "The Poststructuralist Consensus in Social Movement Theory," in Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper, editors, Rethinking Social Movements (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), pp. 111-120. (PDF file.)
• "Social Movement Theory and Islamic Studies," in Quintan Wiktorowicz, editor, Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004), pp. 289-303. (PDF file.)
• "The Qum Protests and the Coming of the Iranian Revolution, 1975 and 1978," Social Science History, Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall 2003, pp. 287-325. (PDF file.)
• "Pro-U.S. Fatwas," Middle East Policy, Vol. 10, No. 3, Fall 2003, pp. 155-166. (PDF file.)
• "Une déploration pour Mustafa. Les bases quotidiennes de l’activisme politique" (Mourning for Mustafa: The Everyday Bases of Political Activism), in Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi and Olivier Fillieule, editors, Résistances et protestations dans les sociétés musulmanes (Resistance and Protest in Muslim Societies) (Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2003), pp. 177-196. (PDF file.)
• "Bin Laden and Other Thoroughly Modern Muslims," Contexts (American Sociological Association), Vol. 1, No. 4, Fall-Winter 2002, pp. 13-20. Republished in Barry Rubin, editor, Political Islam (New York: Routledge, 2007), Vol. 1, pp. 136-146; Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, editors, The Contexts Reader (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008), pp. 303-311; Frank J. Lechner and John Boli, editors, The Globalization Reader, 3rd edition (Malden, MA: Blackwell., 2008), pp. 353-357. (PDF file.)
• "The Globalization of Rights in Islamic Discourse," in Ali Mohammadi, editor, Islam Encountering Globalization (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002), pp. 131-155. (PDF file.)
• "The Sociology of Intellectuals" (first author with Lynn Owens), Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 28, 2002, pp. 63-90. (PDF file.)
• "Democracy’s Effect on Economic Growth: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis, 1950-1980," first author with Regina Werum and Ross E. Burkhart, Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 37, No. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 3-33. (PDF file.)
• "Critics Within: Islamic Scholars' Protests Against the Islamic State in Iran," International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 2001, pp. 341-359. Republished in Michaelle Browers and Charles Kurzman, editors, An Islamic Reformation? (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004), pp. 79-100. (PDF file.)
• "Student Protests and the Stability of Gridlock in Khatami's Iran," Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 2, November 1999, pp. 76-82. Revised version published in Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 25, No. 4, Fall 2001, pp. 38-47. (PDF file.)
• "Uzbekistan: The Invention of Nationalism in an Invented Nation," Critique: Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East, No. 15, Fall 1999, pp. 77-98. (PDF file.)
• "Liberal Islam: Prospects and Challenges," Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3, No. 3, September 1999, pp. 11-19. Various versions published in Forum Bosnae, No. 2, March-April 1999, pp. 20-33 (in Bosnian); Ivan Lovrenovic and Francis R. Jones, editors, Life at the Crossroads (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Forum Bosnae, 2001), pp. 151-166; Barry Rubin, editor, Revolutionaries and Reformers: Contemporary Islamist Movements in the Middle East (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003), pp. 191-201; Studies in Islam (New Delhi, India), Vol. 1, No. 1, 2004, pp. 39-54; Barry Rubin, editor, Political Islam (New York: Routledge, 2007), Vol. 1, pp. 250-260; and Ingrid Creppell, Russell Hardin, and Stephen Macedo, editors, Toleration on Trial (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008), pp. 153-167. (PDF file.)
• "Not Ready for Democracy? Theoretical and Historical Objections to the Concept of Prerequisites," Sociological Analysis (Tirana, Albania), Vol. 1, No. 4, December 1998, pp. 1-12. (PDF file.)
• "Soft on Satan: Challenges for Iranian-U.S. Relations," Middle East Policy, Vol. 6, No. 1, June 1998, pp. 63-72. Republished in Turkish as "ABD-Iran Ilikilerinde Sorunlar: Seytan Konusu," Avrasya Dosyasi (Eurasia Dossier), Vol. 5, No. 3, Fall 1999, pp. 360-372. (PDF file.)
• "Waves of Democratization," Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 42-64. (PDF file.)
• "Organizational Opportunity and Social Movement Mobilization: A Comparative Analysis of Four Religious Social Movements," Mobilization: An International Journal of Research and Theory about Social Movements and Collective Behavior, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1998, pp. 23-49. (PDF file.)
• "Structural Opportunities and Perceived Opportunities in Social-Movement Theory: Evidence from the Iranian Revolution of 1979," American Sociological Review, Vol. 61, No. 1, February 1996, pp. 153-170. Republished in Doug McAdam and David A. Snow, editors, Social Movements: Readings on their Emergence, Mobilization, and Dynamics (Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury, 1997), pp. 66-79; excerpted in Jeff Goodwin and James Jasper, editors, The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 38-48. (PDF file.)
• "Historiography of the Iranian Revolutionary Movement, 1977-1979," Journal of Iranian Studies, Vol. 28, Nos. 1-2, Winter-Spring 1995, pp. 25-38. (PDF file.)
• "A Dynamic View of Resources: Evidence from the Iranian Revolution," Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Vol. 17, 1994, pp. 53-84. Revised version published as “The Network Metaphor and the Mosque Network in Iran, 1978-1979,” in miriam cooke and Bruce Lawrence, editors, Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005), pp. 69-83. (PDF file.)
• "Epistemology and the Sociology of Knowledge," Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 24, No. 3, 1994, pp. 267-290. (PDF file.)
• "Convincing Sociologists: Ideals and Interests in the Sociology of Knowledge," in Michael Burawoy et al., Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), pp. 250-268. (PDF file.)
• "The Rhetoric of Science: Strategies for Logical Leaping," Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Vol. 33, 1988, pp. 131-158. (PDF file.)

• "Islamic Movements," in John L. Esposito, editor, Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), Vol. 3, pp. 155-157.
• "Sociology, Voluntaristic vs. Structuralist," in William A. Darity, Jr., editor, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition (Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008), Vol. 8, pp. 17-18.
• "Reform: Islamic Reform," in Maryanne Cline Horowitz, editor, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005), pp. 2028-2029.
  
• "Liberalism," "Modernism," "Modern Thought," "Secularism, Islamic," in Richard C. Martin, editor, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Modern World (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004), Vol. 1, p. 413; Vol. 2, pp. 456, 467-472, 614-615.
• "Liberalism," in John L. Esposito, editor, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 180-181.
  

• Review essay, "Islamic Studies and the Trajectory of Political Islam," Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 36, No. 6, November 2007, pp. 519-524.
• Review of Georgi M. Derluguian, Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography (University of Chicago Press, 2005), in American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 111, No. 6, May 2006, pp. 1999-2001.
• Review of Mansoor Moaddel, Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism (University of Chicago Press, 2005), in Social Forces, Vol. 84, No. 3, March 2006, pp. 1855-1856.
• Review of Janine A. Clark, Islam, Charity, and Activism: Middle-Class Networks and Social Welfare in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen (Indiana University Press, 2004), American Journal of Sociology,  Vol. 111, No. 4, January 2006, pp. 1270-1272.
  
• Culture Review: Da Arabian MC's, in Contexts, Vol. 4, No. 4, Fall 2005, pp. 70-72.
  
• Review of Jon Armajani, Dynamic Islam: Liberal Muslim Perspectives in a Transnational Age (University Press of America, 2004), in Middle East Journal, Vol. 59, No. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 332-333.
  
• Review of Mohammed M. Hafez, Why Muslims Rebel (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003), in Social Forces, Vol. 82, No. 2, December 2003, pp. 863-865.
• Review of Misagh Parsa, States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions (Cambridge University Press, 2000), in Iranian Studies, Vol. 35, Nos. 1-3, 2002, pp. 247-249.
• Review of Katerina Dalacoura, Islam, Liberalism and Human Rights (I.B. Tauris, 1998), in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 12, No. 3, July 2001, pp. 387-389.
• Review of Armando Salvatore, Islam and the Political Discourse of Modernity (Ithaca Press, 1997), in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 110-112.
• Review of Azadeh Kian-Thiébault, Secularization of Iran: A Doomed Failure? The New Middle Class and the Making of Modern Iran (Diffusion Peeters, 1998), in Iranian Studies, Vol. 32, No. 4, Fall 2000, pp. 614-616.
• Review of Jørgen S. Nielsen, editor, The Christian-Muslim Frontier: Chaos, Clash or Dialogue? (I.B. Tauris Publishers, 1998), in Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, Fall 2000, pp. 301-304.
• Review of M. Holt Ruffin and Daniel Waugh, editors, Civil Society in Central Asia (University of Washington Press, 1999), in Nationalities Papers, Vol. 28, No. 3, September 2000, pp.  602-603.
• Review of Nader Ahmadi and Fereshteh Ahmadi, Iranian Islam: The Concept of the Individual (St. Martin's Press, 1998), in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 29, No. 3, May 2000, pp. 521-524.
• Review of John Foran, editor, Theorizing Revolutions (Routledge, 1997), in Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, Vol. 16, No. 1, April 2000, pp. 138-141.
• Review of Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch, Jr., Status, Power, and Legitimacy: Strategies and Theories (Transaction, 1998), in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 28, No. 6, November 1999, p. 745.
• Review of Houman A. Sadri, Revolutionary States, Leaders, and Foreign Relations (Praeger, 1997), in CIRA Bulletin (Center for Iranian Research and Analysis), Vol. 14, No. 2, September 1998, pp. 55-56.
• Review of Asef Bayat, Street Politics: Poor People's Movements in Iran (Columbia University Press, 1997), in Social Forces, Vol. 76, No. 4, June 1998, pp. 1587-1589.
• Review of Saeed Rahnema and Sohrab Behdad, editors, Iran After the Revolution (I.B. Tauris, 1996), Social Forces, Vol. 76, No. 1, September 1997, pp. 346-348.
• Review of Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi and Ali Mohammadi, Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution (University of Minnesota Press, 1994), CIRA Bulletin (Center for Iranian Research and Analysis), Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 1996, pp. 9-10.
• Review of Allan Megill, editor, Rethinking Objectivity (Duke University Press, 1994), Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 1995, pp. 545-548.
• Review of Ernest Gellner, Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals (Allen Lane, 1994), Social Forces, Vol. 74, No. 1, September 1995, pp. 344-347.
• Review of Ehsan Naraghi, From Palace to Prison: Inside the Iranian Revolution (Ivan R. Dee, 1994), CIRA Bulletin (Center for Iranian Research and Analysis), Vol. 10, No. 3, Spring 1995, pp. 14-15.
• Review of Kenneth Katzman, The Warriors of Islam: Iran's Revolutionary Guard (Westview Press, 1993), CIRA Newsletter (Center for Iranian Research and Analysis), Vol. 9, No. 2, Winter 1994, pp. 13-14.

• National Science Foundation, Human and Social Dynamics Program, "Dynamic Patterning in Conflict Behavior Between States and Non-State Actors," co-principal investigator with Mark Crescenzi and Robert Jenkins, 2008-2010.
• Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program, "Muslim Modernities," co-director with Bruce B. Lawrence, 2008.
  
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Reynolds Research Fellowship, 2008.
  
• National Institute of Justice, "Anti-Terror Lessons of American Muslim Communities," co-principal investigator with David Schanzer and Ebrahim Moosa, 2007-2009.
• United States Institute of Peace, "Islamist Participation in Parliamentary Elections," 2007-2008.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Latané Fund Multidisciplinary Seed Grant, "Assessing Violent Conflicts between States and Non-State Actors," co-principal investigator with Mark Crescenzi and Robert Jenkins, 2005-2006.
  
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spray-Randleigh Fellowship, "Constructing 'American Islam,'" 2004-2005.
• Mellon Foundation and Carolina Population Center, "Iranian Population Growth, Urbanization, and Women's Education," 2002-2003.
• American Sociological Association, Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, "Islamist Networks," co-principal investigator with Quintan Wiktorowicz, 2002.
• Mellon Foundation and University of North Carolina Center for International Studies, "Women’s Higher Education and Population Growth in Iran," 2001.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Faculty Fellow, 2001.
• National Science Foundation, "Business Community Support for New Democracies," 2000-2002.
• North Carolina Networking Initiative, "Teleconferencing Islamic Studies," co-principal investigator with Carl Ernst, 2000-2001, 2001-2002.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Favorite Faculty Award, Senior Class of 2000, 2000.
• IBM/UNC Curricular Innovation Grant, "Islamic Studies Curricular Resources Website," co-principal investigator with Carl Ernst, 1999-2000.
• Rockefeller Foundation Research Grant, "Modernist Islam Translation Project," 1999-2000.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Junior Faculty Development Award, 1998.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ueltschi Service Learning Course Development Grant, 1998.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University Research Council Faculty Grants, 1998 and 1999.
• Georgia Division of Family and Children Services, "Georgia Welfare Reform: Impact Assessment," co-principal investigator with Gary Henry, 1998-2001 (status switched to Consultant after the submission of the grant application in December 1997).
• U.S. Department of Education, Fulbright-Hays Travel-Study Fellowship, "Uzbekistan in the Post-Soviet Era," 1997.
• American Sociological Association, Spivack Award in Applied Sociology, "The Effects of Welfare Reform on the Homeless Population of Atlanta," 1997.
• Georgia State University, Instructional Improvement Grants, "Service-Learning," 1994, 1995.
• Georgia State University, Research Initiation Grant, "Liberal Islam," 1994.
• Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley, Dissertation Fellowship, 1991.
• MacArthur Interdisciplinary Group for International Security Studies, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Dissertation Fellowship, 1989-1990.
• National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellowship, 1986-1989.
• Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Massachusetts, 1986.
• Harvard College Scholarship, 1984, 1986.
• National Merit Scholarship, 1982.

• American Institute for Iranian Studies, trustee-at-large, 2007-2010.
• Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, associate director, 2003-2006; board member, 2006-present.
• Center for Iranian Research and Analysis, executive board member, 1997-2003.
• Middle East Studies Association, social science dissertation award committee, 2004-2005; nominating committee, 2006; program committee, 2008.
  
• Editorial board member, American Journal of Sociology, 2007-2009; Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 1986-1988; Contexts, 2005-2007; Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 2004-present; Social Forces, 1997-present.
• Reviewer, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Americal Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship, Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship (U.S. Department of Education), National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, and various book publishers and social science journals.

• American Sociological Association
• International Society for Iranian Studies
• Middle East Studies Association
• Southern Sociological Society

Graduate Courses:

• Celebrity Status (2005)
• Classical Social Theory (1997 [twice])
• Comparative Historical Methods (2009)
  
• Contemporary Social Theory (1996, 1997)
• History of Sociological Theory (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007)
• International Development (1994-1995, 1995 [interdisciplinary course with political science and economics faculty])
• Middle East Politics (2005, 2007)
  
• Political Sociology (1995, 2001, 2003)
• Radical Islamic Movements (2004)
• Social Movements (1994, 1995, 2004)

• International Development (1991, 1992)
• Introduction to Sociology (1988, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997)
• Political Sociology (1995)
• Social and Economic Justice (2000, 2003, 2007)
• Social Movements (1993, 1994)
• Social Theory (1990-1991, 1998 [twice], 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
• Sociology of Islam (1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)
• The Sociology of Fun (1996)