Gulf Research Meeting
Dr. Neema Noori
Dr. Neema Noori is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of West Georgia. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia 7 University in 2006, where he also taught at the School of International and Public Affairs from 2000 through 2005. He joined the Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) in the United Arab Emirates in 2005. Since 2008, he has been at the Department of Sociology at the University of West Georgia. Dr. Noori's areas of interest include the politics of international higher education, political sociology, globalization, and development – primarily in the context of the Middle East and Central Asia. To date, his research has followed three trajectories. The first expands his regional specialization to include the Arabian Gulf. Partly in response to witnessing the proliferation of American-style universities in the Gulf, he has written several articles on higher education governance and the diffusion of the American model of higher education in the Middle East. The second builds on his dissertation and is focused primarily on NGO and government development policy in Post-Soviet Central Asia. The third trajectory concerns the political and social legacies of the Iran-Iraq war with a particular focus on Iranian veterans. His publications have appeared in the following journals: PS: Political Science and Politics, International Journal of Culture, Politics and Society, Annual Review of Political and Military Sociology, and Central Asia Survey.
