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Asef Bayat is the Catherine Bruce Bastian Professor of Global Transnational Studies at the Department of Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Illinois, Bayat taught at the American University Cairo and held various visiting positions at institutions such as the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, Oxford, and Brown University. His research primarily focuses on Political Sociology, Collective Behavior, Social Movements, Sociology of Religion, Community and Urban Sociology, Global Transnational Sociology, and Comparative Historical Sociology. Bayat's recent work centers on understanding Arab revolutions, particularly the roles played by popular classes during these upheavals, as explored in his latest book that narrates the stories of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions from the perspective of subordinate classes. Asef Bayat is currently writing a sociological memoir that delves into themes of modernity, migration, and melancholy.
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