探花楼

Professor of Sociology

Education

PhD 1988, New School University 

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

• Current Social Problems
• People and Cultures of the Middle East
• Social Theory 
• Senior Seminar
• Film in Sociocultural Context

Graduate

• Classical Social Theory
• Contemporary Social Theory
• Sociology of Terrorism
• Islam and Modernization

Selected Publications

Books

鈥淢igration, Globalization, and Ethnic Relations: An Interdisciplinary Approach, edited volume, Spring 2003, New Jersey, Prentice Hall Publications, co-editor: Mohsen Mobasher

Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam: The Essential Writings of Abdolkarim Soroush, Oxford University Press, 2000, a translation of eleven articles, an interview, and a critical introduction.  Second translator and editor, Ahmad Sadri.

Book Chapters

鈥�Reframing Reform: Islamic Dilemma Writ Small in Iran鈥檚 Apostasy Trials鈥� in: Apostasy and Blasphemy in Islamic Tradition, L.B. Taurus, 2017.

鈥淢ohammad Khatami鈥�, second author, Ahmad Sadri, in: Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 236-245.

鈥�How Green is the Arab Spring? Comparing the Iranian and the Arab Pro-democracy Movements鈥�, in: Assessing MENA Political Reform, Post-Arab Spring: Mediators and Micro-foundations, ed. Brian Calfano and Emile Sahliyeh, Lexington Books, 2014 

鈥淒elegitimizing the Islamic Republic of Iran with a Fatwa: The Significance of Ayatollah Montazeri鈥檚 Post-Election Legal Ruling of July 2009鈥� in: The People Reloaded: the Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran鈥檚 Future, (ed. Hashemi and Postel), Melville House, New York, 2011, pp. 151-164. Coauthor, Ahmad Sadri

鈥淟egal Opinion as Political Action: The Significance of Ayatollah Montazeri's Post-election Fatwa in Delegitimizing the Islamic Republic of Iran鈥�, in: Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age: The 2009 Presidential Election Uprising in Iran, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. First author, Ahmad Sadri

鈥�Weber and the Straussian Charge of Relativism鈥� in: Max Weber Matters: Interweaving Past and Present, Edited by: David Chalcraft, Fanon Howell, Marisol Lopez Menendez, and Hector Vera, Ashgate, 2008, coauthor, Ahmad Sadri

鈥淭errorism: Notes on a Communitarian Approach鈥� in: Building Terrorism Resistant Communities, Edited by S谋dd谋k Ekici, Ahmet Ekici, David A. McEntire, Richard H. Ward, Sudha S. Arlikatti, IOS Press, 2009

鈥淚slamic Socialism鈥�, Entry in: Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic. 2 Vols. Kamrava and Dorraj, Editors, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008

鈥淚slamic Liberalism鈥�, Entry in: Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic. 2 Vols. Kamrava and Dorraj, Editors, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008

鈥淧eople鈥檚 Temple: From Social Movement to Total Institution鈥� in: Social Movements: Contemporary Perspectives, Cambridge Scholarly Publishing, 2008, with Phyllis Gardner and James Williams

鈥淪uicidal Homicide: A Durkheimian Approach鈥�, in: Understanding Terrorism: Analysis of Sociological and Psychological Aspects, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, E: Human and Societal Dynamics, volume 22,  Edited by Suleyman Ozeren, Ismail Dincer Gunes, Diab M. Al-Badayneh, , 2007

鈥淭hree Faces of Violence: Cognitive, Expressive, and Traditionalist Discourses of Discontent in Contemporary Iran鈥� in: Iran Faces the New Century, Rutledge, 2007

鈥淪acral Defense of Secularism鈥� in: Intellectual Trends in 20^th Century Iran, 2003. Florida University Press

Annotated translation of Mohammad Hossein Naini鈥檚 鈥淓xhortation of the Faithful and Purification of the Nation or Islam鈥檚 View Concerning the Nature of Government鈥� in: Modernist Islam: A Sourcebook, Charles Kurzman, (ed.) Oxford University Press, 2002

鈥淕ood News about Modernity鈥� in: The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim, & Weber, Volume II: Applications and Analyses of Classical Theory by Modern Social Scientists. March, 2000.  New York, Gordian knot Books.鈥淚ntercultural Understanding: Max Weber and Leo Strauss鈥� in The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber: Applications and Analysis of Classical Sociological Theory by Modern Social Scientists, ed.  Richard Altschuler, New York: Gordian Knot Books, January 1998, pp. 507-528 coauthor Ahmad Sadri.

Annotated translation of Mehdi Bazargan鈥檚 鈥淚slam and Liberty鈥� in: Liberal Islam, Charles Kurzman (ed), Oxford University Press, 1998.

"Selective Saliency of Ascriptive and Achieved Status in Organically Solidary Societies," in Durkheim's Division of Labor 1893-1993, eds. Ph. Besnard, M. Borlandi, P Vogt, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1993, Pp. 279-294. (Arthur Stinchcombe, second author).  Simultaneously published in French, and German editions.

Articles

"Departmental Structure, Cooperative Scholarship, and Productivity: A Fuzzy Set Qualitative-Comparative Analysis of Selected Sociology Departments", Social Science, 6, (2) May 2017.

鈥淚ranian Caper: Notes on a Culture of Liminal Predation鈥� in: Symbolic Interaction, fall 2017, forthcoming.

鈥淎 Dream Delayed: Debates on the Establishment of Iran鈥檚 First National Bank in the Proceedings of the Frist Constitutional Assembly, 1905-1909. Fall 2017, Cambridge Journal of the Middle East, forthcoming.

鈥淐ommiseration and Problem Solving in Classroom: Collective Adaptation to Structural Strain, Teaching Sociology, Fall 2017, forthcoming.

Masnavi Writ Small: Rumi鈥檚 鈥淭he Epistle of the Reed鈥�, Interreligious Insight, July 2015.

鈥淢ohammad Khatami: The Accidental President鈥� second author: Ahamd Sadri, in: Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics, 2013.

鈥淗ojjatiyya Society鈥� in: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics, 2012

鈥淚slamic Socialism鈥�, Entry in: Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic. 2 Vols. Kamrava and Dorraj, Editors, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008

鈥淚slamic Liberalism鈥�, Entry in: Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic. 2 Vols. Kamrava and Dorraj, Editors, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008

鈥淔rom Irony to Inclusion: Early models of Interfaith Dialogue鈥� in: Inter-religious Insight, January 2006

鈥淒issident Political Theology in Contemporary Iran鈥� Carsten Niebuhr Biblioteket,  vol 7. January 2006

鈥淭he Essential and the Ephemeral in the Idea of the United Nations鈥� proceedings of International Conference on the Reform of the United Nations, sponsored by the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) and  the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Forthcoming in: January 2006.

Contributing author, Encyclopedia Iranica, 2003, New York: Columbia University Press, entries: Hojjatieh, Halabi.

鈥淭he Only Survivor,鈥� Iranian, (an on line journal) September 19, 2002

鈥淥ccidentalism: Images of the West,鈥� featured essay; in: Contemporary Sociology, (September 1996.)

Contributing author, The Encyclopedia of Modern Social Issues, Pasadena: Salem Press, 1996, entries: Common Good, Ayatollah Khomeini, Amitai Etzioni.

鈥淒oppelganger: Twins' Disruption of the Assumptions of Constancy and Uniqueness of Self in Everyday Life.鈥�  Symbolic Interaction, 1994. (Ahmad Sadri, second author.)

"Max Weber and Leo Strauss on Inter-cultural Understanding,"  Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 1, No. 3., Spring, 1988.  Reissued in French, Societe, No. 3, Printemps. 1989.

"The Mantle of the Prophet," a critical postscript, International Journal of State, Culture, and Society, Vol. 2, No. 3, Spring 1986.

"Problem Areas of the Theories of Rationality, A Metatheoretical Approach," International Journal of State, Culture, and Society, Fall 1985.

"Reconstruction of Max Weber's Rationality: An Immanent Model," Social Research, Fall 1982

Media Presentations, Interviews, Releases

2017 鈥淭he sensitivity of the Iranian elections鈥� roundtable discussion. May 22. 

2017 鈥淭he intellectual and historical roots of ISIS鈥�, interview with Voice of America, broadcast from Erbil, autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq. March 22.

2017 鈥淩eligious Reform and Beyond鈥� an hour-long interview with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). London, England. January 7.         

2016 鈥淩eligious Reform or Reconstruction?鈥� an hour-long interview with British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). London, England December 31, 2016.

2016 鈥淒allas Police shootings and Racial Violence in US鈥� Live Skype interview, Persian Broadcast, Voice of America, July 8.

2016 鈥淩adical Islam and the Orlando Tragedy:  a Roundtable discussion鈥�, Voice of America鈥檚 鈥淥fogh鈥� program, July 1.