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Carrie Rosefsky WickhamProfessor

Biography

Education/Degrees

  • Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University
  • A.B., Social Studies, Harvard University

Teaching/Research Areas 

  • Social movements and contentious politics in authoritarian settings, with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa
  • Humanist elements of the Arab-Islamic turath (civilizational heritage), the liberal arts and civic engagement as catalysts of democratic change in Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt

Books Published

  • The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement (Princeton University Press, 2013, released with a new Afterward in 2014) 
  • Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism and Political Change in Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2002)