Nader Hashemi
Associate Professor; Director, Middle East Center
Director of the Center for Middle East Studies (on sabbatical)
303-871-2447 (Office)
SIE Complex, 2201 S. Gaylord St. Denver, CO 80208
What I do
I'm the Director of the Center for Middle East Studies. I'm also the co-director of the Religion and International Affairs certificate program (with Andrea Stanton) and the co-director of the Political Theory Initiative (with Micheline Ishay).
Specialization(s)
Political Theory, Middle East/Islamic Politics, Religion and Politics, Comparative Politics, Islam-West relations, US foreign policy
Professional Biography
I obtained my doctorate from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Previously, I was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCLA Global Institute. My intellectual and research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and political theory, in particular debates on religion and democracy, secularism and its discontents, Middle East and Islamic politics, democratic and human rights struggles in non-Western societies and Islam-West relations. For more information see my website: www.naderhashemi.com
Degree(s)
- Ph.D., Political Science, University of Toronto, 2005
Professional Affiliations
- Middle East Studies Association
Research
Comparative Political Theory, Democracy and Democratization, Authoritarianism, Secularism, Religion and Politics
Areas of Research
Islam
Religion
Human Rights
authoritarianism
democracy
secularism
US foreign policy
Middle East
Muslim societies
Iran
Arab world
