Education

  • Princeton University:  Princeton, NJ.  Ph.D. Department of Politics and Program in Near Eastern Studies (1995)

  • Georgetown University:  Washington D.C.  Arabic Language Institute, summer 1990

  • Middlebury College:  Middlebury, VT.  Arabic Summer Language Program, 1989

  • Wesleyan University:  Middletown, CT.  B.A.  Philosophy Major (1988). Honors in  Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa

Areas of Teaching & Scholarship

  • Comparative Political Theory: The comparative study of Western and non-Western political and social thought, with a particular emphasis on Islamic political thought (classical, modernist, Islamist), Muslim feminist thought and Arab intellectual history.

  • Political Theory: History of Euro-American political thought (ancient, modern, contemporary), contemporary social thought (post-modernism, critical theory, feminist theory)

  • Middle Eastern and North African Politics: Colonial and postcolonial history and politics of Middle Eastern and North African countries