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Lisa Wedeen, Chair |
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| Major Areas of Interest: | - Comparative Politics; - Middle East; - Political Theory; - Feminist Theory - Qualitative Methods. |
| Selected Publications: | - PERIPHERAL VISIONS: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen (forthcoming Spring 2008); - "Concepts and Commitments in the Study of Democracy" in Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics (2004); - "Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State: Exemplary Events in Unified Yemen" in Comparative Studies in Society and History (2003); - "Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science" in APSR (2002); - Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (1999). |
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| Phone: | (773) 702-8065 |
| Office: | Pick 413 |
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Professor of Political Science Lisa Wedeen specializes in comparative politics, the Middle East, political theory, feminist theory, and qualitative methods. In addition to various articles, Wedeen is the author of Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) and PERIPHERAL VISIONS: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Forthcoming, Spring 2008).
