Lisa Wedeen

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Lisa Wedeen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago specializing in comparative politics, the Middle East, political theory, and feminist theory. Her work on the Middle East includes Ambiguities of Domination,[1] an ethnographic study of the culture of the spectacle in Syria under Hafez al-Assad.

[edit] Selected Publications

Peripheral Visions: Politics, Power, and Performance in Yemen (2008)
"Concepts and Commitments in the Study of Democracy" in Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics (2004)
"Seeing Like a Citizen, Acting Like a State: Exemplary Events in Unified Yemen" in Comparative Studies in Society and History (2003)
"Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science" in APSR (2002)
Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (1999)