SOURCE GUIDE
Covering Islam and politics

IN THE NORTHEAST
• Bahman Baktiari is an associate professor of political science at the University of Maine in Orono. He is an expert on Iranian politics and religion. Contact 207-581-1871.
• Dale Eickelman is a professor of anthropology and human relations at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Among his areas of interest is Muslim politics, about which he has written several books. Contact 603-646-2621, dale.f.eickelman@dartmouth.edu.
• F. Gregory Gause III is an associate professor of political science at the University of Vermont in Burlington. He is an expert in Middle East politics and participated in “Roundtable Series on Global Islamic Politics: The Implications of the Changing Balance of Power in the Middle East” at the Council on Foreign Relations in October 2007. Contact 802-656-0571, gregory.gause@uvm.edu.
• Ellen Lust-Okar is an associate professor of political science at Yale University in new Haven, Conn. She researches the formation of political institutions in the Middle East. Contact 203-432-3648, ellen.lust-okar@yale.edu.
• Berna Turam is an assistant professor of sociology and the Middle East at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., where she teaches courses in Islamic politics, Islam and democracy, civil society and the state, secularism, nationalism and the Middle East. She is the author of Between Islam and the State: The Politics of Engagement (2006). Contact 413-549-5677, bturam@hampshire.edu.

IN THE EAST
• Mirjam Künkler is an instructor in Near Eastern studies at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. She is also the former deputy director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion at Columbia University in New York, where her dissertation was on Islam and democracy. She is an expert on Islamic politics in Indonesia and Iran. Contact 609-258-4280, kuenkler@princeton.edu.
• Farhad Kazemi is a professor of politics, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University in New York City, where he teaches a course in Middle Eastern government and politics. Contact 212-998-8506, farhad.kzemi@nyu.edu.
• David Patel is an assistant professor of government at Cornell University. He applies game theory and ethnography to Islamic institutions to study their effect on national politics and once spent eight months living with an Islamic family in Basra, Iraq. He speaks frequently about the political and religious situation in Iraq. Contact 607-255-6758, dsp58@cornell.edu.
• Diane Singerman is an associate professor at the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. She is an expert on Islam and politics in Egypt. Contact 202-885-2362, dsinger@american.edu.
• John O. Voll is professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. He is an expert in Middle Eastern, Islamic and world history, and he has written on Islam in the modern world and Islam and democracy. Contact 202-687-0288, vollj@georgetown.edu.
• Catherine Warrick is an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University in Villanova, Pa. She teaches a course in Middle East politics, and one of her areas of research and expertise is comparative politics in the region. Contact 610-519-7712, catherine.warrick@villanova.edu.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im is a law professor at Emory University Law School in Atlanta. His research includes human rights in cross-cultural perspectives, constitutionalism in Islamic and African countries, and Islam and politics. Contact 404-727-1198, abduh46@law.emory.edu.
• Michaelle L. Browers is an associate professor in the political science department of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. Her expertise is in Arab and Islamic political thought, political ideologies, feminist theory and democratic theory. Contact 336-758-3535, browerm@wfu.edu.
• David Gilmartin is a history professor at North Carolina State University and director of its Center for South Asia Studies. He can discuss the politics in Pakistan. He is in Raleigh, N.C. Contact 919-513-2243, gilmartin@social.chass.ncsu.edu.
• Timur Kuran is a professor of economics and political science at Duke University’s Islamic Studies Center. He is working on a book about the political legacy of Islam. Contact 919-660-4302, t.kuran@duke.edu. 
• Michael Peletz is an anthropology professor at Emory University in Atlanta. He is an expert on Islam and politics in Malaysia, Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia. Contact 404-727-0484, mpeletz@emory.edu.
• Leonardo A. Villalón is an associate professor of political science at the University of Florida in Gainesville and director of its Center for African Studies. He is at work on a project for the Carnegie Corporation of New York titled “Negotiating Democracy in Muslim Contexts: Political Liberalization and Religious Mobilization in the West African Sahel.” He is an expert in Islam and politics and on democratization in Senegal, Mali and Niger. Contact 352-392-2183, villalon@africa.ufl.edu.

IN THE SOUTH
• Najib Ghadbian is an assistant professor of political science and Middle East studies at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Ghadbian’s research interests include political currents and media in the Arab world, Islamic movements, Syrian politics, and domestic and international politics in the Arabian/Persian Gulf. Contact 479-575-3860, ghadbian@uark.edu.
• Joel Gordon is a history professor at the University of Arkansas. He is an expert on religion and politics in the Arab world. Contact 479-575-4755, joelg@uark.edu.
• Khaled Helmy is a visiting professor in the political science department at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he teaches a course in the comparative politics of the Middle East. Contact 504-862-8312, khelmy@tulane.edu.
• Reem Meshal is an assistant professor of Islamic studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She specializes in religious fundamentalism and nationalism, including within the Muslim world. Contact 225-578-2220, rmeshal@lsu.edu.
• Randall L. Pouwels is a history professor at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway. He co-edited The History of Islam in Africa. Contact 501-450-5625, Randyp@uca.edu.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Scott Atran is an adjunct professor in the psychology department at the University of Michigan and is associated with its Research Center for Group Dynamics. He can discuss jihadi movements and al-Qaeda. Contact 734-936-0458, satran@umich.edu.
• Orit Bashkin is an assistant professor of modern Middle Eastern Studies at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. She is an expert on the political and religious history of Iraq. Contact 773-834-8346, oritb@uchicago.edu.
• Juan Cole is a history professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he teaches a course on Islam in global politics. He is the author of a book on politics and religion in Iran and another on the politics and history of Shiite Islam. Contact 734-763-1599, jrcole@umich.edu.
• Anas Malik is an assistant professor of political science at Xavier University in Cincinnati. He does research on political Islam and development and participated in a panel on why Islam becomes politicized at the 2007 Clifford Symposium “Islam and Politics in a Globalizing World” at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt. Contact 513-745-3227, malik@xavier.edi.
• Mansoor Moaddel is a research affiliate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, where his focus has been on political attitudes and conflicts in the Middle East. Contact 734-936-2603.
• Mark Tessler is director of the International Institute and a research professor of political science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is an expert on politics in the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Contact 734-615-9149, tessler@umich.edu.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Clement Moore Henry is a professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is interested in comparative politics in the Middle East and North Africa. Contact 512-232-7210, chenry@mail.utexas.edu.
• Allen Hertzke is a professor of political science and director of religious studies at the University of Oklahoma in Norma, Okla. He teaches courses on religion in American politics, religion in global politics, American political institutions, and political philosophy. He contributed an article on the response of U.S. black churches to the country's foreign policy in Sudan. Contact 405-325-6421, ahertzke@ou.edu.
• Fred von der Mehden is a professor emeritus of political science at Rice University in Houston. Islam and the politics of Southeast Asia are among his fields of interest. Contact fvdm@rice.edu.
• M. Hakan Yavuz is an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He has written about Islamic movements in Turkey and Kurdish nationalism in Turkey. Contact 801-585-7986, hakan.yavuz@poli-sci.utah.edu.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Joel S. Fetzer is an associate professor of political science at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. His areas of interest include religion and politics, and he co-authored a paper titled “Muslims and the State in the United States, Britain, France and Germany.” Contact 310-506-6250, joel.fetzer@pepperdine.edu.
• Ira M. Lapidus is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor of the book Islam, Politics and Social Movements. You can read the transcript of a 2003 interview with Lapidus on the subject of contemporary Islamic societies and politics. Contact 510-642-1971, ilapidus@berkeley.edu.
• Mark LeVine is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, where he specializes in the Middle East. He has written widely about Islam and politics, including on the subjects of Islam in the public square and Islam and Middle Eastern politics. Contact via Alan Taing, 949-824-7687, tainga@uci.edu.
• Saba Mahmood is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests include Islam and religious reform movements and secular modernity in postcolonial societies. She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, based on a grassroots women’s piety movement in Egypt. Her current project is a study of secularism in Egypt and Lebanon. Contact 510-642-3565, smahmood@berkeley.edu.
• Farid Senzai is a fellow and director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, which researches the Muslim community in the United States. He is also an assistant professor of political science at Santa Clara University. Contact 408-551-6097, fsenzai@ispu.org.
• Eliz Sanasarian is a political science professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and is an expert on Iranian politics, minorities and women in the Islamic world. Contact 213-740-3624, sanasari@usc.edu.
• Mehran Tamadonfar is an associate professor and chairman of the political science department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. One of his areas of study is Islam and politics in the Middle East and North Africa. Contact 702-895-5258, mehran.tamadonfar@unlv.edu.