Faculty

Andrew Davison

Professor of Political Science

Andrew Davison joined the faculty in 1996 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He has served as department chair since the summer of 2009 and is also a member of the Steering Committees of Asian Studies and International Studies. His recent courses include, "Seminar in Political Theory," "Interpreting Politics," "Political Modernity in Turkey," and "The Ideology of the Islamic Revolution in Iran."

Mr. Davison's publications include:

Books:

The World Is My Home: A Hamid Dabashi Reader, coedited with Himadeep Muppidi (Transaction, 2010)

The Philosophic Roots of Modern Ideology: Liberalism, Conservatism, Marxism, Fascism, Nazism, Islamism,  coauthored with David E. Ingersoll and Richard K. Matthews (Sloan Publishing, 2010)

Europe and Its Boundaries: Words and Worlds, Within and Beyond, coedited with Himadeep Muppidi (Lexington Books, 2009)

Conquering Hearts and Minds: The American War Ideology in the Persian/Arabian Gulf, 1990-2003 (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2005)

Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey: Progress or Order?, coauthored with Taha Parla (Syracuse University Press, 2004)

Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration (Yale University Press, 1998)

Essays:

"The Power and Hermeneutic Limits of Social Fact Analysis in Political Science Research on Turkey," Sosyoloji Dergisi, 3:21 (Istanbul Universitesi Edebiyat Fakultesi: Istanbul Universitesi Yayinlari, 2010)

"Secularism and Laicism in Turkey," coauthored with Taha Parla, in Secularisms, edited by Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pelegrini (Duke University Press, 2008)

“Laiklik and Turkey’s ‘Cultural’ Modernity: Releasing Turkey into Conceptual Space Occupied by ‘Europe’,” in Remaking Turkey: Globalization, Alternative Modernities, and Democracy, edited by E. Fuat Keyman (Lexington Books, 2007)

“Ziya Gökalp and ‘Provincializing Europe’,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006)

“The ‘Soft’ Power of Hollywood Militainment: The Case of The West Wing’s Attack on Antalya, Turkey,” New Political Science (2006)

“Turkey a ‘Secular’ State? The Challenge of Description,”  The South Atlantic Quarterly (2003)

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).