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Curriculum Vitae [pdf]

Publications

• Elections and Distributive Politics in Mubarak's Egypt, 2011, Cambridge University Press.

• "Rewarding Impatience: A Bargaining and Enforcement Model of OPEC" International Organization, 58, (Spring 2004).
• "Rewarding Impatience Revisited: A Response to Goodrich" International Organization, 60, (Spring 2006).
• "The Political Economy of Women's Support for Fundamentalist Islam" (with Drew Linzer) World Politics, 60, (July 2008).
• "Ideological Reorientation and Counterterrorism: Confronting Militant Islam in Egypt" (with Lawrence Rubin) Terrorism and Political Violence, 20, (Winter 2008).
• "Women's Electoral Participation in Egypt: The Implications of Gender for Voter Recruitment and Mobilization" (with Safinaz El Tarouty) Middle East Journal, 63, (July 2009).
• "Spoiling the Peace? Peace Process Exclusivity and Political Violence in North-central Africa" (with Jennifer De Maio) Civil Wars, 12, (March 2010).
• "Counting Calories: Democracy and Distribution in the Developing World" (with Mark Kayser) International Studies Quarterly, 55, (December 2011).
• "One Man, One Vote, One Time? A Model of Democratization in the Middle East" (with James Lo) Journal of Theoretical Politics, 24, (January 2012).
• "Elite Competition, Religiosity, and Anti-Americanism in the Islamic World" (with Drew Linzer) American Political Science Review, 106, (May 2012)
• "The Feudal Revolution and Europe's Rise: Political Divergence of the Christian West and the Muslim World before 1500 CE" (with Eric Chaney) American Political Science Review, 107, (February 2013)
• "Religiosity-of-Interviewer Effects: Assessing the Impact of Veiled Enumerators on Survey Response in Egypt" (with Rachel Gillum) Politics & Religion, forthcoming

Working Papers

• "How Does Islamic Local Governance Affect the Lives of Women? A Comparative Study of Two Cairo Neighborhoods" (Best Paper Award, Women and Politics Section, APSA and Paul Weber Award, Religion and Politics Section, APSA)
• "Gender, Social Capital and Dispute Resolution in Informal Areas of Cairo and Istanbul" (with Ceren Belge)

Syllabi

• "Freshman Seminar: Everyday Political Life in the Authoritarian Middle East" (PS 44N)
• "Middle Eastern Politics" (PS 149T)
• "Graduate Seminar: Middle Eastern Politics" (PS 441L)

Unpublished Translations (from Arabic)

• "Makram Mohammed Ahmed interviews the historic leadership of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya inside the Scorpion prison" al-Mussawar, June 2002.
• "Makram Mohammed Ahmed writes from the Wadi Al-Natroun Penitentiary: The Rank and File has a Discussion with their Leadership" al-Mussawar, July 2002.