Jocelyne Césari

Political Sociologist
CES Affiliate

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-8787
E-Mail: jcesari@fas.harvard.edu





Biographical Information

Césari has been a research associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard since the spring of 2001 and holds teaching positions at Harvard Divinity School (where she teaches courses on Islam in America and global Islam). Before coming to Harvard, she served as an associate research scholar and visiting professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. At Harvard, she directs the Interdisciplinary Program on Islam in the West. A major publication, Encyclopedia of Islam in America, will be published in 2007 under the auspices of this research program. She is also coordinating the research program on Muslims in Europe under the auspices of the European Commission. Her most recent books are When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States (2004) and European Muslims and the Secular State (2005). Her areas of expertise include Islam and globalization, Muslim minorities in Europe and America, and Islam and politics in North Africa.