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Andrew DavisonProfessor and Department Chair of Political Science 
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," "Seminar in Political Theory," "Political Modernity in Turkey," and "The Ideology of the Islamic Revolution in Iran." Mr. Davison's publications include Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration (Yale, 1998); 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); Europe and Its Boundaries: Words and Worlds, Within and Beyond (co-edited with Himadeep Muppidi, Lexington Books, 2009); The Philosophic Roots of Modern Ideology: Liberalism, Conservatism, Communism, Fascism, and Islamism, new edition (co-authored with David Ingersoll and Richard Matthews, Sloan Publishing, 2010); “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).  |