Academic Year 2009-2010: Upcoming Lectures

Managing the Culture Clash in the Middle East: Do the Courts Matter?
Wednesday, September 23, 5:30pm, Cabot Intercultural Center 702
Speaker: Eva Bellin, Associate Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Speaker Biography

Eva Bellin is an associate professor of political science at Hunter College and at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is a comparativist with specialization in the Middle East and North Africa. Her interests center on issues of democratization and authoritarian persistence, political and economic reform, civil society, religion and politics, and the politics of cultural change.

Bellin is the author of Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State Sponsored Development (Cornell University Press, 2002) and is currently working on a second book, Arbitrating Identity: High Courts and the Politics of Cultural Reconciliation in Egypt, Israel, and Pakistan. She has published in a variety of venues including World Politics, Comparative Politics, Political Science Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, World Development, Foreign Affairs, Middle East Policy, as well as numerous edited books.

In 2006-2008 the, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace named Bellin a Carnegie Scholar, supporting her research on high courts in the Middle East and Islamic World. Bellin has served on the editorial board of the journal Comparative Politics since 2005. She is a graduate of Harvard University (BA-Social Studies) and Princeton University (PhD-Politics).

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