Employment
Associate Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross, 2005-
Assistant Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross, 1998-2004
Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, College of the Holy Cross, 2003-5
Columbia University, New York City, NY
Ph.D. in Political Science, February 2000
Dissertation: "Religious Nationalism 101: How State Educational Systems
Strengthened Religious Nationalist Movements in Colonial-Era Egypt, North India,
and Indonesia"
Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA), American University in Cairo, 1989-1990
(intensive year-long, non-degree Arabic program)
American University in Cairo, 1987-88, junior year abroad student
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
B.A. in Political Science, 1989
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Summer 2002
Fellowship for Advanced Multi-Country Research, Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), for fieldwork in New Delhi, India, and Cairo, Egypt, Spring 2001
Research and Publication Grant, College of the Holy Cross, Spring 2001
Charles & Rosanna Batchelor (Ford) Foundation Grant, College of the Holy Cross, Summer 2003 and Summer 2000
Fellow of Summer Academy 2000: History and Historiography: New Approaches and Perspectives, Institute of Islamic Studies, Free University of Berlin, September 18-29, 2000
Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security in A Changing World, 1994-96
Fulbright-Hays Grant for dissertation fieldwork in Egypt, October 1993-December 1994
Courses Taught at Holy Cross
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Democratization
Politics of the Middle East
Religion and Politics: Middle East
Nationalism
Religion and Politics
Honors Seminar: Religion and Nationalism
"Colonial Education Systems and The Spread of Local Religious Movements: The Cases of British Egypt and Punjab," Contemporary Studies in Society and History, January, 2005
"Too Much Civil Society, Too Little Politics: The Case of Egypt and the Arab Liberalizers," Comparative Politics, January 2004
"The Exit from Arab Autocracy," Journal of Democracy, Vol.13, No.3, July 2002
"Educational 'Subcontracting'and The Spread of Religious Nationalism: Hindu and Muslim Nationalist Schools in Colonial India and Indonesia," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Vol. XXI Nos. 1 and 2, 2001
"Of Islamists and Ballot Boxes: Rethinking the Relationship Between Islamisms and Electoral Politics," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 33, November 2001
"Introducing Students to Middle East Political Activists Through the World Wide Web: One Political Scientist's Approach," Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 1, Summer 1999
Online Publications
"Frosty Reception for U.S. Religious Freedom Commission in Egypt," Middle East Report (online version), March 29, 2001 (http://www.merip.org/mero/mero032901.html)
"Cracks in Egypt's Electoral Engineering: The 2000 Vote," Middle East Report (online version), November 7, 2000 (http://www.merip.org/mero/mero110700.html)
"How the Building of Colonial Education Systems Facilitated the Spread of Religious Nationalist Movements: The Arya Samaj in India and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt," University of Virginia, March 31, 2004
Participant in a videoteleconference on September 11, 2002, combining American professors and civil society leaders at the American University in Cairo, and Israeli professors at Tel Aviv University. Taped at Brown University, 12-2 p.m., September 11, 2002.
"Islamism, Democracy, and Autocracy: The Post-9/11 Debate," International Forum for Democratic Studies, Washington, D.C., March 11, 2002
"A Tale of Two Islamist Movements: The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Muhammadiya in Indonesia" at the seminar "Education, Islam and the State: Middle Eastern, South and Southeast Asian Contexts," Center for Middle East Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 14, 2002
"Egyptian Islamists: From the Muslim Brotherhood to the Islamic Jihad," Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, City University of New York Graduate Center, November 30, 2001
"Democracy in Egypt : A Discussion of the Recent Elections," Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, January 18, 2001
"Using the Web to Study Middle East Newspapers and Activists," American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference, Washington, February 18-21, 2006
"Does Gender Discrimination Explain Arab Authoritarianism?" Middle East Studies Association Conference, Washington, November 19-22, 2005
"Too Much Civil Society, Too Little Politics: The Case of Egypt," New England Political Science Association conference, Providence, May, 2003
"Tentative Propositions on NGOs and Democratization in the Arab World," American Political Science Association conference, Boston, August 29- September 1, 2002
"State School Systems As Conduits for Religious Nationalism: The Cases of Colonial Egypt and Indonesia," Middle East Studies Association conference, San Francisco, November 17-20, 2001
"What Role Can Advocacy NGOs Play in Democratizing Authoritarian Regimes? The Case of Human Rights Groups in Egypt" American Political Science Association conference, San Francisco, August 29- September 2, 2001
"Educating for Islamism: The Educational and Employment Networks of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Muhammadiya in Indonesia," National Endowment for the Humanities Conference on Poverty and Charity in Islamic Societies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 4-7, 2000
Discussant of "Two Types of Islamic Radicalism in Uzbekistan: the IMU versus the Hizb-ut-Tahrir," Workshop on "The Roots of Islamic Radicalism," Yale University, May 10, 2004
Service to the Profession
Member of the Editorial Committee of Middle East Report, Spring 2000 - 2005
Vice Chair of the Editorial Committee of Middle East Report, Fall 2002 - Fall 2005
Reviewed fellowship proposals for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowships, the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship competition and the National Endowment for Democracy's Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program
Reviewed articles for the American Political Science Review, Comparative Education Review, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and World Politics