David B. Kriser Professor in the Humanities; Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Anthropology; Chair of Middle Eastern Studies
D.Phil. 1967 (social anthropology), Dip.Anth. 1964, B.A. 1963 (Arabic), Oxford.

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Research Interests:

Anthropology and sociology of Islam; history and anthropology, narrative theory; anthropology of power and violence; urban studies; cultural representation.

Affiliations:

Middle Eastern Studies Association, European Association of Social Anthropologists, Association of Social Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association.

Fellowships/Honors:

Emeritus Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1979-1980; Conseil de Direction, European Science Union Project of Islam and the Individual, 1990-1994; Conseil de Direction, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Moyen-Orient Contemporain (CERMOC), Beirut/Amman, 1992-present; Advisory Board, International Institute for the Study of Islam in the modern world, Leiden, Holland.

Selected Works:

Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in a Lebanese Society. London: I. B. Tauris Press. 1996

Recognizing Islam: An Anthropologist's Introduction. London: Croom Helm; New York: Pantheon Press. March 1983.

Saint and Sufi in Modern Egypt: An Essay in the Sociology of Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press.1973.

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