Carrie Rosefsky Wickham received her B.A. Magna cum laude from Harvard and her Ph.D. from Princeton. She is Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she teaches courses on political Islam, social movements and democratization, as well as a survey course on politics in the Middle East and North Africa. In 2004 Wickham received an Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching, the University’s highest award for excellence in teaching. Wickham’s research analyzes the origins and evolution of social movements and political protest in developing countries, with a regional focus on the Middle East. She is the author of Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism and Political Change in Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2002) and has published articles in Comparative Politics; PS: Political Science and Politics; Middle East Policy; and the on-line journal Muslim World Journal of Human Rights. In 2003 Wickham was selected as a Carnegie Scholar for the period 2004-2005 and received $100,000 to support a new research project on democratization and the "auto-reform" of Islamist opposition goals and strategies in the Arab world. She also received a supplemental grant of $20,000 for the same project from the United States Institute of Peace. Wickham conducted fieldwork for the project in Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait in 2004; made a follow-up research trip to Egypt in 2005; and will extend the project to Morocco and Tunisia this year. Her current research will eventually culminate in a new book, Islamist Auto-Reform and the Future of Opposition Politics in the Arab World. Wickham has presented guest lectures at the State
Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Defense
University, the Smithsonian Institute, the U.S. Institute of Peace,
the Women's Foreign Policy Group, and several universities, including
the University of California-Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Ohio
State, Old Dominion University, University of California-Los Angeles,
and Dartmouth. She also serves as a consultant to the Department
of Homeland Security. Further, since September 11, 2001 she has
given numerous talks on U.S.-Muslim relations at local schools,
synagogues and churches.
Human rights courses: POLS 337 – Islam and Politics: offered every two years; POLS 338 – Politics of the Middle East: offered every two years; POLS 490S – Gender Islam and Politics: offered every two years. Publications related to human rights:
Forthcoming. Islamist Auto-Reform and the Future of Opposition Politics
in the Arab World. |
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