Michaelle L. Browers

Associate Professor
Office: Tribble C-306
Phone: 758-3535
Email

The image above is Raphael's famous painting, The School of Athens, the cosmopolitanism of which is striking. Note the artist's depiction of the great Muslim scholar Ibn Rushd (Averroes) and of Hypatia of Alexandria, a great mathematician and philosopher who was both female and pagan.


 

 

 


Education:

        Ph.D., University of Minnesota;
        M.A., University of Virginia; B.A., Whitman College

 

Courses Taught
  • POL 115: Political Theory
  • POL 272: Democratic Theory    
  • POL 277: Feminist Political Thought   
  • POL 290: Islam and the West
  • FYS 100: Politics and Identity

Teaching Abroad

In the spring semester of 2010, Prof. Browers will direct Wake Forest University's Flow House in Vienna.  Students interested in the program are encouraged to contact Prof. Browers or may apply online here.

Prof. Browers will teach the following two courses in Vienna:

  • Political Theory: Truth and Power (approved for Division IV Credit!)
  • The Politics of Identity in Central Europe

Professional/Research Focus

        Arab and Islamic Political Thought, Political Ideologies, Feminist Theory, Democratic Theory

 

Selected Publications

  • “Origins and Architects of Yemen’s Joint Meeting Parties,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 39:4 (November 2007), pp. 565-86.
  • “The Egyptian Movement for Change: Intellectual Antecedents and Generational Conflicts,” Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, 1:1 (June 2007), pp. 69-88.
  • Democracy and Civil Society in Arab Political Thought: Transcultural Possibilities (Syracuse University Press, 2006).
  • “The Centrality and Marginalization of Women in the Political Discourse of Arab Nationalists and Islamists,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 2:2 (June 2006), pp 8-34.
  • Between Athens and Jerusalem (or Mecca): A Journey with Dallmayr, Strauss, Ibn Rushd, and Jabiri,” in Letting Be: Fred Dallmayr’s Cosmopolitical Vision, ed. Stephen F. Schneck (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), pp. 167-82.
  • “The Secular Bias of Ideology Studies and the Problem of Islamism,” Journal of Political Ideologies 10:1 (February 2005), pp. 75-93.
  • “Shahrur’s Reformation,” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 30:3 (Fall 2004), pp. 445-67.
  • “Modern Islamic Political Thought,” in Handbook of Political Theory, ed. Gerald F. Gaus and Chandran Kukathas (London: Sage Publications, 2004), pp. 367-79.
  • “Arab Liberalisms: Translating Civil Society, Prioritizing Democracy,” Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy 7:1 (Spring 2004) pp. 51-75.
  • “The Civil Society Debate and New Trends on the Arab Left,” Theory & Event 7:2 (2004)
  • An Islamic Reformation?, Edited by Michaelle Browers and Charles Kurzman (Lexington Books, 2004).

 

Links

Middle East and South Asia Studies

Women's and Gender Studies

 

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