Title: CMES Associate; Editor, Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review (HMEIR)
Credentials: PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1984
Phone: (617) 495-7699
Office Location: 17 Sumner Road, 205
Academic Interests: Political economy of the Middle East; international finance.
Title: CMES Associate; Director of Islam in the West Program; Visiting Associate Professor of Islamic Studies
Credentials: PhD University of Aix en Provence, 1991
Phone: (617) 495-8787
Office Location: 38 Kirkland Street, 206
Office Hours: M 3-5PM
Biography: Dr. Jocelyne Cesari’s training, professional experience, and academic expertise is in political science, the Middle East area, and Islamic studies. She is senior research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris and University La Sorbonne. She has written numerous books and articles, on Muslim minorities in Europe and in the U.S. and their transnational links with the Muslim world at large. She has coordinated several European research programs on Islam in Europe (see http:www.euro-islam.info). The most recent are: "Islam and Human Rights in Europe", and "The consequences of security policies on European and American Muslims after 9/11" both under the auspices of the European Commission. Her continuous investigation on Islam as a minority in secular and democratic contexts brought her to the U.S. Since 1998, she held several fellowships and professorships at Columbia and Harvard universities. She is currently Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and teaches at the Divinity School on Islam in America and Global Islam.
Title: Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Phone: 617-496-4188
Office Location: CGIS Knafel Bldg. room N222
Biography: Lenore G. Martin (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor of Political Science at Emmanuel College in Boston, and is co-chair of the Middle East Seminar at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs as well as co-chair of the Seminar on Modern Turkey at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Professor Martin has written books and numerous articles analyzing national security in the Gulf, the larger Middle East, and Turkey, including: The Unstable Gulf: Threats from Within, Lexington Books 1984, New Frontiers in Middle East Security, edited, St. Martin’s/Palgrave 1999 and 2001, and The Future of Turkish Foreign Policy, co-edited with Dimitris Keridis, MIT 2004. She has lectured and made presentations on many scholarly panels and symposiums in the United States and Canada, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. She has traveled extensively in the Middle East and Turkey. In 2006 she served as a member the Carter Center/NDI Monitoring team for the Palestinian elections. She has received multiple grants for her research including from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Maurice Pechet Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences administered through the Kuwait Program Research Fund at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2005 and 2006 she received Fulbright Senior Specialist awards for work in Turkey. She is presently working on issues of Palestinian-Israeli peace and the security challenges posed by the Turkish-Kurdish-Iraq-U.S. interrelationship.
Title: Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Phone: 1-617-496-9591
Office Location: 17 Sumner Road, Room 209
Biography:
Dr. Sara Roy is a senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University where she completed her doctoral studies in international development and education. Trained as a political economist, Dr. Roy has worked in the Gaza Strip and West Bank since 1985 conducting research primarily on the economic, social and political development of the Gaza Strip and on U.S. foreign aid to the region. Dr. Roy has written extensively on the Palestinian economy, particularly in Gaza, and has documented its development over the last three decades. Her current research, which was funded by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, examines the social and economic sectors of the Palestinian Islamic movement and their relationship to Islamic political institutions, and the critical changes to the Islamic movement that have occurred over the last seven years. Her primary findings point to a restructuring and de-radicalization of the Islamist movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip prior to the start of the second Palestinian uprising.
Dr. Roy is the author of The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development (1995, 2001), now in its second edition with a third edition forthcoming; The Gaza Strip Survey (1986); and editor of The Economics of Middle East Peace: A Reassessment (1999). Her most recent book is Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (London: Pluto Press, 2007) and she is completing Islam and Social Islam in Palestine (Princeton University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Roy also has authored over 100 publications dealing with Palestinian issues and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Current History, Middle East Journal, Middle East Policy, International Journal of Middle East Studies, The Beirut Review, American Political Science Review, Critique, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Chicago Journal of International Law, Index on Censorship, La Vanguardia, Le Monde Diplomatique and the London Review of Books.
Dr. Roy also serves on the Advisory Boards of American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), an American private voluntary organization working in the Middle East, and the Center for American and Jewish Studies at Baylor University. In addition to her academic work, she has served as a consultant to international organizations, the U.S. government, human rights organizations, private voluntary organizations, and private business groups working in the Middle East.
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