Rate My Professor Mounira Charrad

Charrad's research specializations include gender and women's rights, political sociology, social theory, colonialism, comparative-historical sociology, globalization, and the Middle East and North Africa. She holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Middle East Studies and affiliations with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Women's and Gender Studies, Center for European Studies, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and Center for Global Business at UT Austin, as well as a Non-resident Fellowship at Rice University's Baker Institute since 2014. Her landmark book, States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco (University of California Press, 2001), received the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award for Best Book in Sociology, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award from the Political Sociology Section, American Political Science Association's Greenstone Award for Best Book on Politics and History, UT Austin's Hamilton Award for Outstanding Scholarly Book, and Phi Alpha Theta's Best First Book in History Award, among others; it has been translated into Arabic and Chinese. She co-edited Women Rising: In and Beyond the Arab Spring (New York University Press, 2020) and authored highly cited works such as "Gender in the Middle East: Islam, State, Agency" (Annual Review of Sociology, 2011, 277 citations), "Women's Agency Across Cultures" (Women's Studies International Forum, 2010, 168 citations), and recent articles on family law reforms in Tunisia and Morocco. Charrad's scholarship has profoundly influenced political sociology and gender studies in postcolonial contexts.