DOCSLIB.ORG

Timothy Mitchell Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Timothy Mitchell Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Timothy Mitchell Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Tel (212) 854-5252 407 Knox Hall Fax: (212) 854-5517 Columbia University email [email protected] 606 West 122nd St. New York, NY 10027 Updated: May 1, 2019 Education Cambridge University, B.A. (first class) 1977, converted to M.A. 1981 Princeton University, Department of Politics and Program in Near Eastern Studies, M.A. 1979, Ph.D. 1984 Academic Appointments Ransford Professor of Arabic Studies, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 2008-; Chair, MESAAS Department, 2011-17 Professor, Department of Politics and Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University, 2002-8; Associate Professor, 1992-2002; Assistant Professor, 1985-92. Director, Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, 1996-2003. Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes 2018 Distinguished Scholar Award, Theory Section, International Studies Association. 2017 Ester Boserup Prize, University of Copenhagen, for outstanding research on development and economic history. 2014-17 Carnegie Corporation grant ($300,000) to support program of visiting scholars from the Arab region at Columbia University. 2013 “Top Five” award from SIPA, Columbia University, for course ranked in top five in student evaluations in School of International and Public Affairs. 2003-06 U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center Grant, for the Hagop Kevorkian Center, N.Y.U. 1999-03 Ford Foundation grant to direct a four-year collaborative project: “Area Studies at NYU: Institutionalizing the Creole Model.” 2000-03 U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center Grant, for the Hagop Kevorkian Center, N.Y.U. 1998-99 Faculty Fellow, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University 1997-99 Ford Foundation grant to direct a two-year collaborative project: “Area Studies at NYU: From Borders to Networks.” 1997-00 U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center Grant, for the Hagop Kevorkian Center, N.Y.U. 1996-97 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo 1995 Sawyer Fellow, Advanced Study Center, the International Institute, University of Michigan 1992-93 SSRC Transnational Research Grant, for series of workshops and conferences on "Questions of Modernity: Strategies for Post-Orientalist Research on the Middle East and South Asia" 1989-90 American Research Center in Egypt Postdoctoral Fellowship, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities 1989 Research Challenge Fund Award, New York University 1989 Golden Dozen Award for excellence in teaching, College of Arts and Science, New York University 1986 Presidential Junior Faculty Fellowship, New York University. 1984 American Research Center in Egypt Postdoctoral Fellowship. 1984 Malcolm Kerr Awards of the Middle East Studies Association for best social science dissertation of 1983-84: honorable mention. 1981-82 American Research Center in Egypt Doctoral Fellowship 1977 The History Prize, Queens' College, Cambridge University. 2 1977 Foundation Scholarship, Queens' College, Cambridge University Professional Activities Journal Editorships Senior Editor, Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (2012-18) Editorial Boards Editorial Committee, Journal of Historical Sociology (1994-) Advisory Editor, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (1993-98) Editorial Collective, Social Text (2001-2009) Editorial Board, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (1999-2002) Editorial Committee, Middle East Report (1988-93); Chair of the Editorial Committee (1989- 91); Contributing Editor (1994-). Advisory Editor, MIT Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (1999-) Editorial Board, Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures (2004-) International Advisory Board, The Palestinian Society and History Review (2004-) International Advisory Board, Journal of Cultural Economy (2007-) International Advisory Board, Development and Change (2007-) Editorial Board, American Political Science Review (2007-) Editorial Advisory Board, Economy and Society (2008-) Editorial Advisory Board, Cultural and Social History (2008-) Advisory Board, Mediations: Journal of Modernity Studies (2012-) Editorial Board, Arabian Humanities (2012-) Editorial Board, Tadween Publishing (2013-) Board of Advisors, Muftah (2010-) Governing Bodies and Committees Joint Committee of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies on Near and Middle Eastern Studies (1988-1994) Governing Council, Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association (1994- 97) Board of Governors, Eastern Consortium in Persian and Turkish (1997-2003) Board of Governors, American Research Center in Egypt (1998-2001) The Arab Image Foundation/Fondation Arabe Pour L’Image. Board Member (2000-). Advisory Board, CARP (Comparative Anthropology of Revolutionary Politics), UCL, London Scientific Advisory Board, Chaire Unesco Bernard Maris Economie et Sociétés, Paris 3 University Service (since 2010 only) Director of Graduate Studies, MESAAS, 2008-10 Chair, MESAAS, 2011-2017 Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2018- Member, Global Education Committee of Education Policy and Planning Committee, 2012-15 Member, Faculty Advisory Committee for the Office of Global Programs, 2013-14 Chair, Faculty Steering Committee for Columbia Global Center/Middle East, 2012-15; member of the committee, 2015- Member, President’s advisory group on global initiatives (2013-16) Executive Committee, Middle East Institute Arts and Sciences Task Force on MESAAS and Four Institutes (MI4), 2018 Advisory Board, Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) (2105-). Steering Committee, Center for Spatial Research, GSAAP and Faculty of Arts and Sciences (2015-). Conferences Organized (through 2010 only) 2004-07 A series of seminars and workshops on “The Rule of Markets” (2004-05), “The Politics of the Unprivileged” (2005-06), and “Rethinking the Social” (2006-07), as part of the project on The Authority of Knowledge in a Global Age at the International Center for Advanced Studies, NYU. 2002-04 A series of three workshops on the study of markets as socio-technical arrangements, held in London, Paris and New York: "Innovating Markets" (London) "Economies at Large" (New York), and "Inside/Outside the Market" (Paris), co-organized with Andrew Barry, Michel Callon, and Julia Elyachar, with funding from the Ford Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, London, and the Center for the Study of Innovation, Paris. 2002-03 "Development After Development" A series of conferences at New York University on the politics of development in Africa and the Middle East, funded by the Ford Foundation. 1998-2000 Middle East/South Asia Dissertation Workshops. Co-organized by NYU with the University of Chicago. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation 1997-98 "The Future of Area Studies in the United States." A series of workshops, co- organized with the University of California, Berkeley, and NYU. Funded by the Ford Foundation 4 1993-99 "Questions of Modernity: Strategies for Post-Orientalist Research on the Middle East and South Asia." A series of international conferences and workshops, funded by a Transnational Research Grant from the Social Science Research Council and by the Ford Foundation Publications 1. Books 2011 Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. London and New York: Verso. Paperback edition with a new afterword, 2013. French translation, Carbon Democracy: Le pouvoir politique à l'ère du pétrole, trans. Christophe Jacquet. Paris: La découverte, 2013. Turkish translation, Karbon Demokrasi: Petrol Çağında Siyasal İktidar. Trans. Fırat Berksun. Istanbul: Açılım Kitap, 2014. Arabic translation: Dimukratiyat al-karbun: al-sulta al-siyasiya fi `asr al- naft. Trans. Bashir al-Siba`i and Sherif Younis. Cairo: Al-Markaz al-Qawmi li-l-tarjama, 2014 Persian translation: Dimukrasi Karboni. Trans. Shahriar Khavajian. Tehran: Qoqnoos Publishing, 2016 In preparation: Russian translation: Moscow: Delo (The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) Korean translation: Flight of Ideas, Seoul. Chinese translation: Shanghai Sanhui Culture & Press Ltd 2011 Petrokratia: la démocratie à l'âge du carbone. Paris: Editions ère. Translated from articles in English. 2006 Dirasatan haula al-turath wa-‘l-hadatha. [Two Studies in Heritage and Modernity]. Cairo: Merit Press. Translated by Bashir al-Siba`i from articles and papers in English. 2002 Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. University of California Press. 2011 Arabic translation, by Bashir al-Siba`i. Cairo: National Translation Office In preparation: Chinese translation: Shanghai Sanhui Culture & Press Ltd 2000 Questions of Modernity. Edited. University of Minnesota Press. 5 1996 Al-dimuqratiyya wa-'l-dawla fi al-`alam al-`arabi [Democracy and the State in the Arab World]. Cairo: Dar Misr al-`Arabiyya. Papers translated from English by Bashir al-Siba`i, 2005: Reprinted, Cairo: al-Hay’a al-misriya al-`amma li-‘l-kitab. 1992 Misr fi al-khitab al-amriki [Egypt in American Discourse]. Cyprus and Damascus: Dar `Iybal. Articles and papers translated from English by Bashir al- Siba`i 1988 Colonising Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with a new preface, University of California
Load more

Recommended publications
  • THE MIDDLE EAST in the PAST and FUTURE of SOCIAL SCIENCE Timothy Mitchell
    THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE PAST AND FUTURE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Timothy Mitchell The founding of the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C. in May 1946 seems a convenient event to mark the arrival of Middle Eastern area studies in the United States. In January 1947 the Institute launched The Middle East Journal, the first American quarterly devoted to the contemporary Middle East. The journal’s inaugural issue declared that the region was now “very near” the United States, both in point of time-distance and with respect to the United States’ new involvement there in “questions of power politics.” Yet the Middle East remained to all except a very few Americans “essentially terra incognita.”1 The principal purpose of the journal was not to analyze the attitudes and policies of the Western powers, which had shaped the countries of the region in the past. Its aim was to set forth and evaluate the forces shaping the region today, namely “forces and factors engendered in and among these countries themselves -- their national consciousness, urge for economic self-determination, cultural conditions, population pressures, regional understandings.”2 Since these countries shared a common Islamic heritage and experience of European expansionism, moreover, a proper understanding of one country could be acquired “only though a proper knowledge of all.” The journal would therefore present particular conditions and problems in the Middle East “as facets of the whole.”3 Fifty years later, in 1996, the Institute assessed the success of this ambition with an article in the journal entitled “The Study of Middle East Politics 1946-1996: A Stocktaking.”4 The assessment was not a positive one.
    [Show full text]
  • Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age Of
    Carbon Democracy Carbon Democracy political power in the age of oil Timothy Mitchell First published by Verso 2011 © Timothy Mitchell 2011 All rights reserved e moral rights of the author have been asserted 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F 0EG US: 20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201 www.versobooks.com Verso is the imprint of New Le9 Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-745-0 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Typeset in Minion Pro by Hewer UK Ltd, Edinburgh Printed in the US by Maple Vail To Adie and JJ Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 Machines of Democracy 12 2 e Prize from Fairyland 43 3 Consent of the Governed 66 4 Mechanisms of Goodwill 86 5 Fuel Economy 109 6 Sabotage 144 7 e Crisis at Never Happened 173 8 McJihad 200 Conclusion: No More Counting On Oil 231 Bibliography 255 Index 271 Acknowledgements I have beneK ted from the comments and criticisms of participants in numerous seminars and lectures where parts of this work were presented, and from more extended discussions with Andrew Barry, Michel Callon, GeoL Eley, Mahmood Mamdani and Robert Vitalis. A number of former students shared with me their work on related topics, and in several cases contributed their assistance to my own research; these include Katayoun ShaK ee, Munir Fakher Eldin, Canay Özden, Firat Bozçali, Ryan Weber and Sam Rubin.
    [Show full text]
  • Declaration of Professor Lila Abu-Lughod
    Case 1:17-cv-00537-TSC Document 36 Filed 04/11/17 Page 1 of 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSAL MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC. et al, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 1:17-cv-00537-TSC DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States, et al., Defendants. Declaration of Professor Lila Abu-Lughod I, Lila Abu-Lughod, hereby declare as follows: 1. I am over the age of eighteen and competent to testify. 2. I am the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality at Columbia University. I have been a professor of anthropology since 1983 and taught at a number of higher education research institutions, including Williams College, Princeton University and New York University. 3. I received my undergraduate degree in Sociology and Anthropology in 1974 from Carleton College. I earned my Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 1984. 4. My curriculum vitae is attached as Exhibit 1. 5. My research focuses, as relevant here, on three broad issues: (1) the relationship between cultural forms and power; (2) the politics of knowledge and representation; and (3) the dynamics of gender and the question of women’s rights in the Middle East. I have conducted extensive ethnographic research in Egypt and elsewhere, focusing on the lived experience of women in a range of social, economic, and political circumstances. Case 1:17-cv-00537-TSC Document 36 Filed 04/11/17 Page 2 of 6 6. I have published extensively on how Muslim women are portrayed in western society.
    [Show full text]
  • Transnational Politics and Feminist Inquiries in the Middle East: an Interview with Lila Abu-Lughod
    Postcolonial Text, Vol 7, No 1 (2012) Transnational Politics and Feminist Inquiries in the Middle East: An Interview with Lila Abu-Lughod Basuli Deb University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lila Abu-Lughod is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University in New York. She works in both the departments of Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her books include Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (1986), Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories (1993/2008), winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, and Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt (2005), which won the American Ethnological Society’s Senior Book Prize. She has also edited Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East (1998), and co-edited Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (2002) and Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory (2007). In 2001 Professor Abu-Lughod delivered the celebrated Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester. Named a Carnegie Scholar in 2007, Lila Abu-Lughod has held highly esteemed fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright, and the Mellon Foundation, among many others. In this interview Professor Abu-Lughod traces how her detour through postcolonial studies and transnational feminism created new possibilities for inquiries into the Middle East, while emphasizing how important ethnographic research was for her as a means of addressing key issues in postcolonial studies. The interview then focuses on the question of Palestine: Abu-Lughod talks about her father, the eminent scholar Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, who came from Palestine to the USA and returned to Palestine later in his life, as well as her personal and professional commitments to justice in the region.
    [Show full text]
  • Timothy Mitchell Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African
    Timothy Mitchell Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Tel (212) 854-5252 407 Knox Hall Fax: (212) 854-5517 Columbia University email [email protected] 606 West 122nd St. New York, NY 10027 Updated: April 1, 2017 Education Cambridge University, B.A. (first class) 1977, converted to M.A. 1981 Princeton University, Department of Politics and Program in Near Eastern Studies, M.A. 1979, Ph.D. 1984 Academic Appointments Ransford Professor of Arabic Studies, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 2008-; Chair, MESAAS Department, 2011-17 Professor, Department of Politics and Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University, 2002-8; Associate Professor, 1992-2002; Assistant Professor, 1985-92. Director, Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, 1996-2003. Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes 2014-17 Carnegie Corporation grant ($300,000) to support program of visiting scholars from the Arab region at Columbia University. 2013 “Top Five” award from SIPA, Columbia University, for course ranked in top five in student evaluations in School of International and Public Affairs. 2003-06 U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center Grant, for the Hagop Kevorkian Center, N.Y.U. 1999-03 Ford Foundation grant to direct a four-year collaborative project: “Area Studies at NYU: Institutionalizing the Creole Model.” 2000-03 U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center Grant, for the Hagop Kevorkian Center, N.Y.U. 1998-99 Faculty Fellow, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University 1997-99 Ford Foundation grant to direct a two-year collaborative project: “Area Studies at NYU: From Borders to Networks.” 1997-00 U.S.
    [Show full text]