Dr. Mohamed Bamyeh is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and the incoming editor of International Sociology Reviews. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. He previously held the Hubert Humphrey chair in International Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the SSRC-MacArthur Fellowship in International Peace and Security. He taught at Georgetown University, New York University, and the University of Massachusetts. His areas of interest include Islamic studies, sociology of religion, political and cultural globalization, civil society and social movements, and comparative social and political theory. His books include intellectuals and Civil Society in the Middle East (2012); Anarchy as Oder: The History and Future of Civic Humanity (2009); Of Death and Dominion (2007); The Ends of Globalization (2000); and the Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse (1999), winner of the Albert Hourani Honorable Mention from the Middle East Studies Association.