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Dr Toni Rouhana
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Biography

I am a postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War at the University of York where I am conducting a comparative study of the roles that sect identities play before, during, and after the wars in Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon.

I hold a PhD in Sociology, with a designated emphasis in History of Consciousness, from the University of California Santa Cruz. I also hold an MS in Computer Engineering and a MA in Sociology. I study war, social movements, religious sectarianism, political emotion, and affect online and offline. I built an online data collection around the Syrian civil war with more than five hundred million tweets and hundreds of thousands of Facebook posts and news articles’ comments, which I used with eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in war-torn Syria and Lebanon.

My interdisciplinary research engages three areas typically treated separately: traditional ethnographic methods, theories of political identities and social movements, and ethnographically-informed computational social science analysis of daily interactions.

My research has been published in Information, Communication & Society and First Monday. My work has been supported by the Regents’ fellowship at the University of California Santa Cruz, and has been awarded a dissertation-year fellowship from the Global Religion Research Initiative (GRRI) at the University of Notre Dame.

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Dr Toni Rouhana
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of York

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