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Jillian Schwedler

Jillian Schwedler

Professor
Areas of Specialization
Comp Pol; Social Mvmts & Content Pol; Protest & Police; Pol Geog; Mid East; Pol Islam; Ethno Methods

Jillian Schwedler is a professor in the Department of Political Science.

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Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Politics, New York University, 2000
  • M.A., Middle East Studies, New York University, 1992
  • B.A., Near Eastern Languages and Literature, New York University, 1988

Areas of Specialization

  • Comparative Politics
  • Social Movements and Contentious Politics
  • Protest and Policing
  • Political Geography
  • Middle East
  • Political Islam
  • Ethnography and Interpretive Methods

Courses

  • POLSC 26300: Government and Politics in the Middle East
  • POLSC 36500: Protest and Dissent

 

Selected Publications

  • 2013. Islamists in Power? Inclusion, Moderation, and the Arab Uprisings, Middle East Development Journal 5, no. 1 (April).
  • 2012. The Political Geography of Protest in Neoliberal Jordan, Middle East Critique 21, no. 3 (December): 259-270.
  • 2011. Can Islamists Become Moderates? Rethinking the Inclusion-Moderation Hypothesis, World Politics 63, no. 2 (April): 347-376.
  • 2010. Amman Cosmopolitan: Spaces and Practices of Aspiration and Consumption, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 30, no. 3 (November), 547-562.
  • 2010. Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion (with Laleh Khalili) (New York and London: Columbia University Press and Hurst Publishers).
  • 2006. Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (New York: Cambridge University Press).
  • 2005. Cop Rock: Protest, Identity, and Dancing Riot Police in Jordan, Social Movement Studies 4, no. 2 (September): 155-175.
  • 2003. Who Left the Window Open? Women's Activism in Islamist Parties? (with Janine Astrid Clark), Comparative Politics 35, no. 3 (April): 293-312.

Office Hours

Day Time Location
Monday 12 pm – 12:50 pm HW 1727 or by appointment in person or on Zoom

Contact Details

Jillian Schwedler

Political Science
68th Street West 1727
(212) 650-3469
js1287@hunter.cuny.edu

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