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Women's & Gender Studies Program
Wake Forest University
Tribble Hall, A106A
P.O. Box 7365
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Phone: 336-758-3758
Fax: 336-758-4143
wgs@wfu.edu

Dr. Michaelle Browers - Associate Professor of Political Science

Office: Tribble C306
Phone: (336) 758-3535
Email: browerm@wfu.edu

Education:

Ph.D.: University of Minnesota

M.A.: University of Virginia

B.A.: Whitman College

Courses Taught for WGS:

POL 269/ENG 302: Multiculturalism in Literature and Political Theory

POL 277: Feminist Political Thought

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.