Dr. Sherry Lowrance
Assistant Professor
  Office: 329 Candler Hall
Phone: (706) 542-3428
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Research: Middle Eastern Politics, identity and political conflict.

Teaching: Middle East political Systems, American Foreign Policy and the Middle East, Global Issues, Identity Politics.

Education:

2004 Ph.D. Government University of Texas at Austin
1995 M.A. Arab Studies Georgetown University
1992 B.A. Political Science University of California-San Diego

Statement of Interests: 

Dr. Lowrance is interested in the implications of ethnic, national, and religious identities for political participation, particularly unconventional participation such as protesting and engaging in political violence. Her current project focuses on identity and protest participation among Arab citizens of Israel.

Publications:

Lowrance, Sherry R. “Being Palestinian in Israel: Identity, Protest, and Political Exclusion.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 25, No. 2 (April/May 2005).

Luskin, Robert C., Bruno Cautres and Sherry R. Lowrance. “La Sophistication Politique en France.”   Revue Française de Science Politique, forthcoming 2005.

Lowrance, Sherry R. “Deconstructing Democracy: The Arab-Jewish Divide in the Jewish State.” Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Summer 2004), pp. 175-193.

Lowrance, Sherry R. "After Beijing: Political Liberalization and the Women's Movement in Jordan." Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3 (July 1998); pp. 83-102.