Augustus Richard Norton
AUGUSTUS RICHARD NORTON (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is a
Professor in the Departments of International Relations and
Anthropology at Boston University. He is a contributing editor to Current History, and
co-editor (with Dale Eickelman) of the Princeton University
Press Muslim Politics series. His latest publications
include "The New Media, Civic Pluralism and the Struggle for
Political Reform," in New Media in the Muslim World The
Emerging Public Sphere, Second Edition, Dale Eickelman and
Jon Anderson, eds. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
2004); "Thwarted Politics: The Case of Egypt's Hizb
al-Wasat," in Civil-Democratic Islam, Robert Hefner, ed.
(sponsored by the Pew Foundation and forthcoming from
Princeton University Press); and, "Middle East Political
Reform" with Farhad Kazemi, in the Foreign Policy
Association's Great Decisions 2004 volume. He headed the
Ford Foundation-funded "Civil Society in the Middle East"
Program at New York University in the 1990s, which was
co-chaired by Farhad Kazemi. He is a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Academic Freedom
of the Middle East Studies Association; and he is also
co-founder of the Conference Group on the Middle East, and
co-founder, in 2002, of the Action Group of Concerned Middle
East Scholars, a group based in Boston and Cambridge. In
1999-2000 he was Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Egypt,
Jordan and Lebanon. He was also named Distinguished Visiting
Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Islamic Studies
for 1999-2000, where he continues to serve as an Academic
Board Member.
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Series
Books:Hezbollah, March 2007
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Civil Society in the Middle East, January 1996
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Amal and the Shi'A, July 1987
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