Congressional Forum on Islam with Carrie Wickham

Carrie Rosefsky Wickham is associate professor of political science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she teaches courses on Islamist groups, parties and movements and Middle East politics. Wickham has published widely in a range of academic journals and is the author of Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism and Political Change in Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2002).  She is currently writing a book entitled Islamist Auto-Reform and the Future of Opposition Politics in the Arab World, for which she recently conducted fieldwork in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Kuwait. Wickham has also served as a consultant for the Department of Homeland Security and served as a core team member of a project on "Islamist Activism and Radicalization," supported by the Science and Technology Expert Partnership (STEP) of the National Intelligence Council. She received her B.A. Magna cum laude from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Princeton University.