Jocelyne Cesari

Jocelyne Cesari is a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs where she directs the Islam in World Politics Program. She teaches on contemporary Islam at the Harvard Divinity School and directs the Harvard interfaculty program “Islam in the West”.

Her research focuses on Islam and globalization, Islam and secularism, immigration, and religious pluralism. Her upcoming book, The Islamic Awakening: Religion, Democracy and Modernity (Cambridge University Press), is based on three years research on state-Islam relations in Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan and Tunisia, conducted when she was the Minerva Chair at the National War College (2011-2012). Her book, When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States (2006) is a reference in the study of European Islam and integration of Muslim minorities in secular democracies. Her most recent books include: Why the West Fears Islam: An Exploration of Islam in Western Liberal Democracies (2013).

She coordinates two major web resources on Islam and politics: Islamopedia Online and Euro-Islam.info.