
- Professor, Middle Eastern Studies
- Professor, Women's and Gender Studies
Research Interests
- Gender & Politics
- Demography (intersectionality of demography & politics, context ual demography, Comparative, Middle East & North Africa)
- Population & Development
- Gender
- Inequality & Justice (Comparative, Middle East & North Africa)
Education
- Ph.D., University of Maryland
I consider myself an interdisciplinary scholar where my research interests include Demography (intersectionality of politics & demography, contextual demography), Development & Democratization, Politics of Inequality and Social Stratification, Gender and Social Justice in addition to my continued interest in the nexus between education, work and social mobility. My regions/countries of expertise are the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) and the United States. My publications have appeared in a variety of peer reviewed journals including Middle East Critique; American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences; Identities: Journal of Politics, Gender and Culture; Industrial Relations, A Journal of Economy and Society; International Review of Sociology/Revue Internationale de Sociologie, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, International Studies in Sociology of Education; Diaspora: Journal of Transnational Studies; Review of Middle East Studies (RoMES); International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES).
I have held positions as a senior research scientist, consultant, quantitative and policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Labor, The World Bank, the Executive Office of Public Leadership of the ETS (all in Washington, D.C.) and published several reports and articles on politics of inequality and social justice, education, immigration, development issues and policies. In addition, I have held visiting professorial posts at Bucknell University and Temple University prior to my positions at CUNY.
My current scholarly interests are on demographic and democratic transitions in the MENA region and the contextual analysis of these transitions, in addition to my continued interest in the intersection of gender & politics.
Courses Taught and Developed
- Political Demography
- Population & Development
- Politics & Culture
- Politics & Gender (U.S., Middle East)
- Politics of Education (U.S., Comparative)
- Social Science Research Methodology (Qualitative & Quantitative)
- Advanced Quantitative Research Methods
- Political Interpretation & Analysis
- Immigrant Communities in the U.S.
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