Lisa Wedeen
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- Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College
Biography
Lisa Wedeen specializes in comparative politics, the Middle East, political theory, and feminist theory. In addition to various articles, she is the author of Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric and Symbols in Contemporary Syria. Wedeen is currently working on a book on political identity-formation in contemporary Yemen, entitled Peripheral Visions: Political Identifications in Unified Yemen.