I am a Shorenstein A/PARC Fellow at Stanford University for the 2011-2012 academic year and will join the faculty of Boston University as Assistant Professor of International Relations in 2013, following a postdoctoral appointment at the American University of Beirut in 2012-2013. My research focuses on the politics of the Muslim world especially Indonesia. My dissertation examines the variation in religious and political tolerance in Indonesia during the twentieth century and is based on two years of field research including 1000 elite surveys, 150 in-depth interviews, and 12 months of research in the archives of the world’s largest Islamic institutions. I have received fellowships from AMINEF/Fulbright, NSEP-Boren, was a 2010 Luce Visiting Fellow at Columbia University, and have received awards for papers on Islamic law and on ethnic identity in elections.
Other research interests include law and society, political violence, politics of the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and qualitative and mixed-method research design. I taught a course on the politics of the Islamic revival at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011 and a class on research design at the State Islamic University Sharif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, in 2009.
On this site you will find more information on my dissertation, related research projects, teaching, newly collected sources of data, and select resources on Indonesia, Islam, and politics.
