Mohammed Bamyeh محمد بامية

Mohammed Bamyeh is a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and the incoming editor of the International Sociology Review of Books (ISRB). He has held the Hubert Humphrey chair in International Studies at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and the SSRC-MacArthur Fellowship in International Peace and Security. He has previously taught at Georgetown University, New York University, and the University of Massachusetts.  

He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. His subsequent areas of interest have included Islamic studies, sociology of religion, political and cultural globalization, civil society and social movements, and comparative social and political theory. His books include Anarchy as Order: The History and future of Civic Humanity (2009); Of Death and Dominion: The Existential Foundations of Governance (2007); The Ends of Globalization (2000); and The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse (1999, winner of the Albert Hourani Honorable Mention from the Middle East Studies Association). He has also edited Palestine America(published as a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, 2003), the forthcoming Intellectuals and Civil Society in the Middle East (2011); and co-edited Drugs in Motion: Mind and Body Altering Substances in the World’s Cultural Economy (published as a special issue of Cultural Critique, 2009).