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Currently Featured Experts
Middle East/Women/Islam
Beth Baron
Associate Professor; Codirector, Middle East and Middle Eastern-American Center
CUNY Graduate Center
Ph.D., Princeton University
Specialties: Nationalism and social politics in the Middle East; women in Egypt; early Islam; Arab-Israeli conflict
Publications: The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press; Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (coeditor); Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (coeditor).
Professor Baron has written and lectured extensively on the issues of gender, politics, and religion in the Middle East. At The Graduate Center, she is currently Associate Professor of History and founding co-director of the newly established Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern-American Center. She also serves as Professor of History at City College, where she was previously the director of Middle East studies at City College. In her book The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press (Yale, 1994), she traces the emergence of Egyptian women's periodicals at the start of the twentieth century in a political context.
Her latest book, The Nation as Woman: Gender, Culture and Politics in Egypt, is currently under review, and she coedited Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History (Mazda, 2000) She has written/edited numerous chapters, articles, and anthologies. During 1999/2000, she was a Visiting Fellow in History at Princeton University, and she was an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow in 1995. Professor Baron received her Ph.D. from the University of California, after receiving an M.A. at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
International Relations
Thomas Weiss
Presidential Professor; Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Relations
CUNY Graduate Center
Ph.D., Princeton University
Specialties: Global terrorism, international relations; diplomacy; the
United Nations
Publications: over 30 books on world politics, including most recently
as an author, Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges (2001),
The United Nations and Changing World Politics (2004), and
Military-Civilian Interactions: Humanitarian Crises and the
Responsibility to Protect (2005); and as an editor, Terrorism and the
UN: Before and After September 11 (2004) and Wars on Terrorism and Iraq:
Human Rights, Unilateralism, and U.S. Foreign Policy (2004).
A distinguished analyst of international relations, Thomas Weiss is a
Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center,
director of The Graduate Center's Ralph Bunche Institute for
International Relations, and co-director of The Graduate Center's UN
Intellectual History Project, a multiyear and multinational effort to
produce an in-depth account of the UN's economic and social
contributions since 1945. He recently headed the Research Directorate of
the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
(ICISS), is editor of the journal Global Governance, is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for
Strategic Studies, and chairs the International Organization Section of
the International Studies Association. He has written extensively about
international organizations, conflict management, peacekeeping, and
humanitarian action.
Middle East/Islam
Talal Asad
Distinguished Professor
CUNY Graduate Center
D.Phil., Oxford University
Specialties: Specialities: Sudan; Arabs;
nomadism
Publications: Genealogies of Religion; The Sociology of Developing Societies: the Middle East; Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter; The Kababish Arabs: Power, Authority, and Consent in a Nomadic Tribe.
At The Graduate Center since 1998, Talal Asad is a sociocultural anthropologist of international stature specializing in the anthropology of religion with a special interest in the Middle East and Islam. He earned his M.A. at Edinburgh University and B. Litt. and D.Phil. at Oxford. Before coming to the United States to teach at the New School, he taught at Oxford and the universities of Khartoum, Sudan, and Hull, England. He was a member of the New School graduate faculty from 1989 to 1995, then joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University. In the Spring of 1979, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
The recipient of many awards and honors, Professor Asad has served on the Economic and Social Research Council in England and the Social Science Research Council in the United States. He is the author or contributing editor of several books including Anthropology and Colonial Encounter (1973, Ithaca/Humanities Press) and Genealogies of Religion (1993, John Hopkins Press), and has published in a wide variety of international journals; his works have been translated into many languages.
NYC Life
William Kornblum
Professor
CUNY Graduate Center
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Specialties: Urban youth; gangs; Times Square/42nd Street redevelopment; Central Park; substance abuse; park use; housing projects; after hours social clubs; telecommunications in education
Publications: Sociology in a Changing World; Growing up Poor (coauthor); The Uptown Kids (coauthor).
An "urbanist" with expertise in the broad range of concerns facing New York City and other urban centers, William Kornblum is a faculty member of the Ph.D. Program in Sociology and Chairman of the Center for Urban Studies. His research has encompassed such subjects as environmental planning, urban park design, community conflict resolution, youth employment, the underground economy, urban ecology, telecommunications, immigration and education. His books include, among others: Coming of Age in Harlem Public Housing (with Terry M. Williams), Sociology in a Changing World, Growing Up Poor (also with Terry M. Williams), and West 42nd Street: The Bright Lights. The study he headed of West 42nd Street was the basis for subsequent plans to redevelop the area.
Middle Eastern Americans
Mehdi Bozorgmehr
Associate Professor; Codirector, Middle East and Middle Eastern-American Center
CUNY Graduate Center
Ph.D., UCLA
Specialties: Immigration and ethnic studies; Middle Eastern Americans
Publications: Ethnic Lost Angeles (coeditor), Middle Eastern Diaspora Communities in America (coeditor).
Having devoted his entire sociological career to the study of Middle Easterners in America, Mehdi Bozorgmehr was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to the study the backlash against Middle Easterners after the attacks of September 11. He is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at The Graduate Center and at City College, CUNY, and a founding co-director of the newly established Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern-American Center at The Graduate Center. He was the Project Director of an NSF-funded survey of Iranian immigrants in Los Angeles in the late 1980s, the first and largest study of this group in the diaspora to date. Based on that survey, on his 1992 UCLA dissertation, and on other fieldwork since, Professor Bozorgmehr has published numerous articles (including three encyclopedia entries) and book chapters on different aspects of the Iranian immigrant community. He also co-edited the award-winning Middle Eastern Diaspora Communities in America (NYU, Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, 1996).
NYC Politics and Immigration
John Mollenkopf
Professor
CUNY Graduate Center
Ph.D., Harvard University
Specialties: New York City politics; elections; voting patterns; census
statistics; city planning and development issues; redistricting; Edward Koch administration
Publications: He has authored or edited ten books on urban politics,
urban policy, the politics of urban development, and New York City,
among them: Place Matters (coauthor, University Press of Kansas, 2001),
E Pluribus Unum? The Political Incorporation of Immigrants in America(coeditor, Russell Sage Foundation, 2001), and Rethinking the Urban
Agenda (coeditor, Century Foundation, 2001). He is also the author of A
Phoenix In The Ashes: The Rise and Fall of the Koch Coalition in New
York City Politics and Contested City (second edition, Princeton
University Press, 1994).
John Mollenkopf is director of the Center for Urban Research and a
Distinguished Professor in the Political Science and Sociology doctoral
programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. His current work focuses on the
comparative study of urban politics and policy, with an emphasis on the
role of immigration in reshaping the contours of racial and ethnic
relations, and he has been widely quoted in the media on a wide range of
New York City topics, particularly recent stories on elections,
immigration, rebuilding in the wake of 9/11, and census analysis. He is
also writing a book with Philip Kasinitz and Mary Waters on the
Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York Project.
Frances Fox Piven
Distinguished Professor
CUNY Graduate Center
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Specialties: Social welfare policy; American electoral politics; social
movements
Publications: Her most recent book is The War at Home: The Domestic
Causes and Consequences of Bush's Militarism (W.W. Norton and Co.,
2004). Other books include Why Americans Still Don't Vote (coauthor,
Beacon Press, 2000); Breaking of the American Social Compact (coauthor,
New Press, 1997); and Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public
Welfare (coauthor, Vintage, updated edition, 1993).
An expert in the development of the welfare state, political movements,
urban politics, voting, and electoral politics, Distinguished Professor
Frances Fox Piven is the recipient of numerous awards, including the
President's Award of the American Public Health Association, and the
American Sociological Association's Career Award for the Practice of
Sociology, as well as their award for the Public Understanding of
Sociology. Before coming to The Graduate Center, she taught at Boston
University, Columbia University, New York University Law School, the
Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, the University of Amsterdam,
and the University of Bologna. She is past Vice-President of the
American Political Science Association, has served as program co-chair
of the annual political science meetings, and is a past president of the
Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Stanley Renshon
Professor
CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Specialties: Political psychology; character issues in politics;
political behavior; public policy
Publications: He is the author of over ninety articles in the fields of
presidential politics, leadership and political psychology and has also
published eleven books, most recently In His Father's Shadow: The
Transformations of George W. Bush (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004). Others
include High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition(New York University Press, 1996); The Psychological Assessment of
Presidential Candidates (New York University Press, 1996). He is also
the editor of the journal Political Psychology.
Professor Renshon's recent psychological portrait of George W. Bush has
placed him in the forefront of current political commentary, while his
prior book on Bill Clinton was the winner of the American Political
Science Association's Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best book
published on the presidency. He has been interviewed and quoted in a
large number of newspapers for stories dealing with the presidency,
public psychology, leadership and more generally, the psychology of
politics, and has appeared often on local, national, and international
broadcast news and public affairs programs. He is the coordinator of The
Graduate Center's Interdisciplinary Program in the Psychology of Social
and Political behavior and has been elected president of the
International Society of Political Psychology for the 2003/04 academic
year.
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