Lisa Wedeen is Professor of
Political Science and the College and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the
University of Chicago. In 1995, Wedeen received her Ph.D. in political science at the
University of California, Berkeley. Her former advisor is
Hanna Pitkin. She has taught courses on nationalism, identity formation, power and resistance, and citizenship. Her work on the Middle East includes ''Ambiguities of Domination'', an ethnographic study of the culture of the
spectacle in
Syria under
Hafez al-Assad.
Selected publications
* "Acting "As If": Symbolic Politics and Social Control in Syria" (1998)
* ''"Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria"'' (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
* "Concepts and Commitments in the Study of Democracy" in ''Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics'' (2004)
* "Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities For Political Science In "APSR" (2002)
* "Ethnography as an Interpretive Enterprise" (2009)
*"Ideology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes from Syria" (2013)
* ''Peripheral Visions: Politics, Power, and Performance in Yemen'' (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
* "Reflections on Ethnographic Work in Political Science" (2010)
*"Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State: Exemplary Events in Unified Yemen" in ''Comparative Studies in Society and History'' (2003)
References
External links
Webpage on University of Chicago websiteArticle in Vol 27 No. 18 of ''The University of Chicago Chronicle''
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
University of Chicago faculty
American women political scientists
American political scientists
American women academics
21st-century American women
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