Research Interests
Social Movements; Political Sociology; Statistics; Data Analysis; Media Studies; Race Relations; Middle East.
Courses Taught
Political Sociology (SOC 226)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Education Justice Project (EJP)
The American Sociological Association's Student Forum Advisory Board, 2020-2022
Recent Publications
2020 “Passing the Torch: Iran’s 2013 Surprise, the Digital Generation Gap, and the Depoliticization of Public Intellectuals,” The International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-020-09367-3.
2019 “How ‘More Cowbell, More Cowbell’ Worked! Disruptive Tactics and the Outcome of the UIUC Labor Protest,” Critical Mass Bulletin, 44(1), Newsletter of the Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements (ASA).
2017 “What’s the Matter with the “Big Data Revolution:” Arabic Tweets and the Problem of Data Replication,” The American Political Science Association’s Newsletter (MENA region), Issue 2.
2016 “What Is New with the Iranian Contentious Politics? European Rightists and Trump Are on the Rise, but Iran’s Radical Right Is Increasingly Marginalized,” Policy Trajectories: Blog of the ASA’s Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology.