charrad@austin.utexas.edu
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College: Liberal Arts

Home Department: Sociology

Additional department affiliations: Middle Eastern Studies

Education: Ph.D., Harvard

Research interests:Gender and women's rights; political sociology; development; and comparative
historical methodology.

Courses taught:
WGS 340 Gender Politics in the Islamic World

WGS 393 Gender and
Development

Awards/Honors: 2005 Distinguished Service to the Tunisian American Community Ibn Khaldun Award

Recent Publications:

"Unequal Citizenship: Issues of Gender Justice in the Middle East and
North Africa." In Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay, ed., Gender Justice, Citizenship and
Development, Ottawa, Canada: International Development Research Centre and KIT
Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam. (Forthcoming)

"Broadening the
Discourse: States in Kin-based Societies" in Political Sociology: States, Power, and
Societies (Political Sociology Section, American Sociological Association).
(Forthcoming)

"Women, Gender and Family Law: Modern Family Law,
1800-2000: North Africa." Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Culture, Leiden: Brill.
(Forthcoming)