Farid Hafez

Political Scientist, Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College, Senior Fellow at Bridge Initiative/Georgetown University

Biography

Dr. Farid Hafez
Academic CV

English (German below)

Farid Hafez, Ph.D. is currently Visiting Professor of International Studies at Williams College. Before, he was a lecturer and researcher at the University of Salzburg, Department of Political Science and Sociology. He is also a faculty member at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service where he researches & writes about Islamophobia as a Senior Fellow for The Bridge Initiative. In 2017, he was a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2014, he was visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York. Since 2010 he has been the editor of the Islamophobia Studies Yearbook, and since 2016 the co-editor of the European Islamophobia Report. Hafez serves as an advisor and reviewer for a number of boards and journals. He has received the Bruno Kreisky Award for the political book of the year for his anthology Islamophobie in Österreich (Studienverlag, 2009) co-edited with John Bunzl. Currently, his research focuses on Muslim youth movements in Europe. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Vienna. His latest publications include “The rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror. Coloniality, race, and Islam” (Manchester University Press, 2022, co-edited with Naved Bakali) and “Islamophobia in Muslim Majority Societies” (Routledge, with Enes Bayrakli). Hafez has published more than 120 scholarly articles, books, and policy papers.

Deutsch

Farid Hafez ist derzeit Gastrpofessor für Internationale Studien am Williams College. Zuvor lehrte und forscht am Fachbereich  Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie an der Universität Salzburg. Zudem ist er Senior Research Fellow bei The Bridge Initiative an der Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service an der Georgetown University. 2017 war er Botstiber-Fulbright Professor for Austrian-American Studies an der University of California, Berkeley am Center for Race and Gender. Hafez promovierte im Fach Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Wien und habilitierte sich an der Abteilung Politikwissenschaft der Universität Salzburg. Er hatte Forschungs- und Lehraufenthalte in Indonesien (Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta), der Türkei (Istanbul University, 29 Mayıs University, Deutsch-Türkische Universität) und den USA (Minnesota, Chicago, City University New York, Columbia University). Hafez ist Gutachter mehrerer Zeitschriften und Stiftungen. Seit 2010 ist er Herausgeber des bilingualen Jahrbuch für Islamophobieforschung, seit 2016 Mitherausgeber des European Islamophobia Report. 2009 erhielt er gemeinsam mit John Bunzl den Bruno-Kreiksy-Anerkennungspreis für “Islamophobie in Österreich” für das politische Buch des Jahres. Zuletzt erschien 2022 der Sammelband “The rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror. Coloniality, race, and Islam” (Manchester University Press, 2022, gemeinsam mit Naved Bakali). Hafez hat mehr als 120 Publikationen veröffentlicht und tritt vielfach in der Öffentlichkeit zu Themen rund um Rassismus in Erscheinung. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Staat-Kirche-Beziehungen, Jugendkultur und soziale Bewegungen, Rassismus.