- Mounira M Charrad
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Mounira M. Charrad is an associate professor in sociology, specifying in the fields of interpretations of cultures, state formation, women's rights, Islamic law, kinship and citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa. She is currently a professor at University of Texas at Austin. Professor Charrad received her undergraduate education from the Sorbonne University in Paris and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Professor Charrad currently serves on the boards of the Institute of Maghribi Studies and the Association of Middle East Women's Studies.
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Research
Professor Charrad focuses her research on strategies of state building in kin-based societies and how struggles over state power shaped the expansion or curtailment of women's rights. She is currently studying conceptions of modernity in legal discourses in the Middle East.
Recognition
Charrad has received noted recognition for her book States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. She received the Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award by the American Sociology Association. Charrad has also won the Best Book on Politics and History Greenstone Award, awarded by the American Political Science Association.
Significant publications
Patrimonial Power in the Modern World, Julia Adams & Mounira M. Charrad, eds., The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (New York, NY: Sage), Volume 636 Issue 1 Jully 2001. 230 pp.
States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. xi + 341 pp. (Hardcover and paperback).
- Translations into French, Arabic, and Chinese
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External links
Categories:- University of Texas at Austin faculty
- Lists of people by university in the United States
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