Emad Shahin is the Henry R. Luce Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding at the Kroc Institute.
Before coming to Notre Dame, Shahin was associate professor of political science at the American University in Cairo, visiting associate professor in the department of government at Harvard University (2006-2009), and visiting scholar in the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School (2006).
Shahin is a comparativist who examines the foundation for democracy and political reform within Islamic law, philosophy, and political practices.
His recent work includes Political Ascent: Contemporary Islamic Movements in North Africa, co-editorship of Struggling over Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa, and co-authorship of "Islam and Democracy," published in Arabic. He is the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2011), and he is co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2011) with John L. Esposito of Georgetown University.
