When I began researching social movements and protest events in the Middle East and North Africa, I was absolutely awed to learn about the extraordinary risks that activists were taking to advocate for democracy, human rights, and basic social provisions. In an..
Dana M. Moss
Dana Moss, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA). Her research investigates how authoritarian forces repress their critics and how collective actors resist this repression in a globalized world. Her first book, The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism Against Authoritarian Regimes (Cambridge, 2022), grows out of fieldwork conducted across the Middle Eastern region and among diasporas in the United States and Great Britain. It is available to read and download here for free on the Cambridge University Press website. Her prior work has been published in top sociology venues such as the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and Social Problems. From 2016 to 2020, Dana was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, where she was awarded the 2020 Tina and David Bellet Excellence in Teaching Award.