ERIC DAVIS, Professor of Political Science, received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His interests include theories of political economy, state theory, political culture, theories of comparative politics, historical memory, and hegemony theory. His research has involved the relationship between state power and historical memory in modern Iraq, the political economy of Egyptian industrialization as a case study of dependency theory, the impact of oil wealth on the state and culture in Arab oil-producing countries, the ideology and social bases of Islamic radical movements, and the comparison of Islamic and Jewish radical movements. Professor Davis has been appointed a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University and the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. He has received grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, IREX, and, as Director of the Rutgers University Center for Middle Eastern Studies, grants from the United States Department of Education, Title VI, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the Verizon Foundation. Between 1980 and 1985, he was a member of the Social Science Research Council's Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East where he chaired a taskforce on social change in Arab oil-producing countries. Among his publications are:

Memories of State: Politics, History and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq (California, 2004); Challenging Colonialism: Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization, 1920-1941 (Princeton, 1983); Statecraft in the Middle East: Oil, Historical Memory and Popular Culture (with Nicolas Gavrielides) (Florida, 1991); "The Persian Gulf War: Myths and Realities," in The United States and the Middle East: A Search for New Perspectives; "State-Building in Iraq During the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf Crisis," in The Internationalization of Communal Strife; "History for the Many or History for the Few? The Historiography of the Iraqi Working Class," in Middle Eastern Workers: History, Historiography and Struggles; "The Museum and the Politics of Social Control in Iraq," in Commemorations: The Politics of Memory and Identity; "Ideology, Social Class and Islamic Radicalism in Egypt," in From Nationalism to Revolutionary Islam; "The Concept of Revival and the Study of Islam and Politics," in The Islamic Impulse; "Religion Against the State: A Political Economy of Religious Radicalism in Egypt and Israel," Religious Resurgence: Comparative Studies From Islam, Christianity and Judaism; "Representations of the Middle East at American World's Fairs, 1876-1904," in The United States and the Middle East: Cultural Encounters; "Global Citizenship: Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspectives," in Social Studies for a New Millennium: Re-envisioning Civic Education for a Changing World; and, "Domino Democracy: Challenges to United States Foreign Policy in a Post-Saddam Middle East," in Patriotism, Democracy and Common Sense: Restoring America's Promise at Home and Abroad. He is currently working on a two volume study of American Orientalism: Mapping America's Orient: The Middle East in American Political and Popular Culture, 1750-1914, 1914-2003.