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Andrew DavisonProfessor 
B.A. Lafayette College; M.A., University of Delaware; Ph.D., University of Minnesota 
Andrew Davison joined the faculty in 1996 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His recent courses include "Introduction to Political Theory," "Interpreting Politics," "Political Theory Seminar in East-West Studies," "Political Modernity in Turkey," and "United states: Turkey and Iraq."
Mr. Davison's publications include Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration (Yale, 1998); The Philosophic Roots of Modern Ideology: Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, and Islamism, third edition (co-authored with David Ingersoll and Richard Matthews, Prentice-Hall, 2001); Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey: Progress or Order? (co-authored with Taha Parla, Syracuse University Press, 2004); Conquering Hearts and Minds: The American War Ideology in the Persian/Arabian Gulf, 1990-2003 (Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2005); “Turkey a ‘Secular’ State? The Challenge of Description,” The South Atlantic Quarterly (2003), “Ziya Gökalp and ‘Provincializing Europe’,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) and “The ‘Soft’ Power of Hollywood Militainment: The Case of The West Wing’s Attack on Antalya, Turkey,” New Political Science (2006), and “Laiklik and Turkey’s ‘Cultural’ Modernity: Releasing Turkey into Conceptual Space Occupied by ‘Europe’,” in E. Fuat Keyman, editor, Remaking Turkey: Globalization, Alternative Modernities, and Democracy (2007); and the documentary film, Leaps of Faith: Views on American Power, the War in Iraq, and Citizenship in a Time of War (co-directed with Benjamin Kalina VC ’98, 2004).  |