Mansoor Moaddel

Mansoor Moaddel

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
M.A., Western Michigan University
B.A., Shiraz University

Dr. Moaddel studies culture, ideology, political conflict, revolution and social change. His work currently focuses on the causes and consequences of values and attitudes of the Middle Eastern and Islamic publics. He has carried out values surveys in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia. He has also carried out youth surveys in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. His previous research project analyzed the determinants of ideological production in the Islamic world. He teaches sociology of religion, ideology, revolution, Islam and the Middle East. He also teaches statistics and research methods. He is the PI on the Youth and Violence, and Comparative Values Survey of Islamic Countries projects.

Curriculum Vitae

Mansoor Moaddel's Research Profile at the Population Studies Center

Middle Eastern Values Study (MEVS)











UN Award

Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi wins 2011 United Nations Population Award

Recent Events

Symposium on Globalization of Modernization Theory: Clashes of Modernities and Moralities, June 8-10, 2010, U of M

Taeuber Award

Arland Thornton receives Irene B. Taeuber Award at 2011 PAA Annual Meetings

Reading History Sideways

The method of reading history sideways is described and critiqued by Arland Thornton

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Developmental Idealism
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