The Everyday Life of the State: A State-in-Society Approach

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243 notES on ContributorS Senem Aslan is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Bates College. Her research interests include state and nation building, state-minority relations, language policies, and politics of imagery. She is currently working on a manuscript on the Turkish and Moroccan states’ policies of nation building and their effects on the formation and development of Kurdish and Berber mobilizations, respectively. Lauren L. Basson is an associate professor of social science in the Humanities and Sciences Department at Cornish College of the Arts. She is the author of White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation (University of North Carolina Press, 2008). Her research interests include race, citizenship, and national identity in multiethnic states. Ceren Belge is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research interests include courts and rights politics, ethnic conflict and civilian victimization, the politics of everyday life, and gender relations. Mary Alice Haddad is an associate professor of government at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Building Democracy in Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Her work has focused on civil society and democratization in Japan, and her current project concerns environmental politics in East Asia. Iza Hussin is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago. Her work is based on comparative, archival, and textual research 244 Notes on Contributors in Arabic, Malay, and English texts across various sites of empire and legal transformation. Her book on the transformation of Islamic law and the Muslim state during British colonization in India, Malaya, and Egypt, The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. Arda Ibikoglu is a postdoctoral fellow in the Social Policy Forum at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. His research interests include comparative politics, Middle East politics, and public law, and he teaches courses on prisons, crime, and Middle East politics. Ahmet T. Kuru is an associate professor of political science at San Diego State University. He is the coeditor (with Alfred Stepan) of Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey (Columbia University Press, 2012) and the author of Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Joel S. Migdal is the Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies in the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and director of the Near and Middle East Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program. He was the founding chair of the University of Washington’s International Studies Program. Dr. Migdal was formerly associate professor of government at Harvard University and senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University . Among his books are Peasants, Politics, and Revolution (Princeton University Press, 1974); Palestinian Society and Politics (Princeton University Press, 1980); Strong Societies and Weak States (Princeton University Press, 1988); State in Society (Cambridge University Press, 2001); Through the Lens of Israel (State University of New York Press, 2001); The Palestinian People: A History (with Baruch Kimmerling) (Harvard University Press, 2003); and Boundaries and Belonging (Cambridge University Press, 2004). In 1993, he received the University of Washington’s Distinguished Teaching Award; in 1994, the Washington State Governor’s Writers Award; in 2006, the Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award; and, in 2008, the Provost Distinguished Lectureship. Yüksel Sezgin is an assistant professor of political science at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. Sezgin is the author 245 Notes on Contributors of Human Rights under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt and India (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Benjamin Smith is an associate professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Florida. He is the author of Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2007). Pamela J. Stumpo received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. Her dissertation focused on how discourse about citizenship provided a safe way for minority groups to challenge Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian regime in public before Egypt’s recent revolution. Maha El-Taji Daghash received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington . Her dissertation was titled “Arab Local Authorities in Israel: Hamulas, Nationalism, and Dilemmas of Social...