Faculty Profiles

Brian J Mello

Professor
Department Chair, Political Science
Political Science
484-664-3469

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Education

  • Ph.D. and M.A., University of Washington
  • B.A., Fairfield University

Teaching Interests

I teach courses on the Middle East, Europe, and in conflict and peace studies. My courses focus on the politics of identity, gender, nation building and the politics of protest and social movements.  I also teach courses in political ideologies including Islamism as radical political ideology and practice. I have taught courses on Turkey, which have included short-term study abroad experiences with students.

Research, Scholarship or Creative/Artistic Interests

My research focuses on social movement politics and broadly on state-society relations. I have conducted specific research on the labor movement in Turkey as well as on Islamist politics in Turkey.  I also have done research projects on the Arab Spring and on the Islamic State that focus on applications of political theory. My current research examines gender in American conflict in the Middle East.

  • FYS: Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe: Representations of Migration
  • Governments & Politics of the Middle East
  • Introduction to Conflict & Peace Studies
  • Islamist Radicalism as Ideology & Political Praxis
  • Paul C. Empie Award, May 2019

 

My most recent article, Islamic State: Violence and Ideology in a Post-Colonial Revolutionary Regime, was published in the Journal International Political Sociology in May 2018. An article applying Hannah Arendt to the Egyptian Arab Spring uprisings is currently under consideration at the journal Arendt Studies. I am also working on an article on bringing integrative learning into the political science classroom that focuses on my approach to teaching European government and politics. 


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