Neema Noori, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology
Department of Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology College of Arts, Culture, and Scientific Inquiry

678-839-6329
nnoori@wqrdG7festga.edu

Pafford Social Science Building - Room 209
Office Hours
11:30 – 2:00 pm Tuesdays and 12:00 – 2:00 pm Thursdays (online and face-to-face)
Pafford 209A

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Neema Noori, Ph.D.

Dr. Neema Noori is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in 2006. After completing his dissertation, Dr. Noori taught for three years in the Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. He joined the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of West Georgia in 2008.

Dr. Noori's areas of interest include political sociology, globalization, historical sociology, and development--primarily in the context of the Middle East and Central Asia. To date, his research has followed two trajectories. The first builds on his dissertation and is focused primarily on NGO and government development policy in Post-Soviet Central Asia. He is writing a book examining the political and social effects of an Uzbek state initiative designed to devolve administrative control to community based organizations. By linking the activities of international NGOs with changes in local modes of governance, this project documents how the international discourse on decentralization influenced the formulation of government development policy in Uzbekistan. The second trajectory expands his regional specialization to include Iran and the Persian Gulf. Partly in response to witnessing the proliferation of American-style universities in the Middle East, he is preparing a book chapter on the globalization of the American model of higher education. This project investigates how these institutions negotiate the demands of having to comply with two competing sets of accreditation standards: American and local. This project will improve our understanding of how organizational cultures are exported by studying whether the largely democratic model of American higher education can survive and/or adapt to the authoritarian political environment of the Persian Gulf region. Though his regional focus has shifted, both sets of projects are largely united by an interest in examining the interplay of global organizations with actors and institutions that function at a sub-national level. He is also working collaboratively on a project examining post-revolutionary organizational change within the Iranian state.

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Summer 2020 Sections

  • SOCI-4053 (Sociological Theory) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4333 (Urban Sociology) Section: E01

Spring 2020 Sections

  • SOCI-1101 (Introductory Sociology) Section: 08G
  • XIDS-2301 (Introduction to Global Studies) Section: 01
  • XIDS-2301 (Introduction to Global Studies) Section: 02
  • GLOB-4000 (Capstone Seminar) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4053 (Sociological Theory) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4999 (Sociology of Terrorism) Section: E03

Fall 2019 Sections

  • SOCI-3283 (Globalization) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4325 (Social Change in Middle East) Section: 01
  • SOCI-4333 (Urban Sociology) Section: E01

Summer 2019 Sections

  • SOCI-3001 (Communicating Sociology) Section: E01
  • GLOB-4981 (Drctd Rdgs in Global Studies) Section: N01

Spring 2019 Sections

  • HONR-2102 (Soph Honor Colloquium: Inquiry) Section: 27H
  • XIDS-2301 (Introduction to Global Studies) Section: 02
  • SOCI-6305 (Advanced Sociological Theory) Section: 01
  • SOCI-6999 (Thesis) Section: 06

Fall 2018 Sections

  • SOCI-4053 (Sociological Theory) Section: 01
  • SOCI-4333 (Urban Sociology) Section: E01
  • SOCI-6182 (Urban Sociology) Section: 02

Summer 2018 Sections

  • SOCI-1160 (Intro to Social Problems) Section: E02
  • SOCI-4053 (Sociological Theory) Section: E01
  • SOCI-6882 (Thesis Preparation) Section: N01

Spring 2018 Sections

  • XIDS-2301 (Introduction to Global Studies) Section: 01
  • SOCI-3283 (Globalization) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4053 (Sociological Theory) Section: E01

Fall 2017 Sections

  • SOCI-4333 (Urban Sociology) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4999 (Sociology of Terrorism) Section: E01
  • SOCI-6182 (Sociology of Terrorism) Section: 01

Summer 2017 Sections

  • SOCI-3283 (Globalization) Section: E01

Spring 2017 Sections

  • SOCI-3001 (Communicating Sociology) Section: 01
  • SOCI-3283 (Globalization) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4053 (Sociological Theory) Section: E01
  • SOCI-6999 (Thesis) Section: 01

Fall 2016 Sections

  • SOCI-1160 (Intro to Social Problems Honor) Section: 25H
  • SOCI-4333 (Urban Sociology) Section: E01
  • SOCI-4999 (SOCIOLOGY OF TERRORISM) Section: 02
  • SOCI-6882 (Thesis Preparation) Section: 03

Summer 2016 Sections

  • SOCI-3283 (Globalization) Section: E01
  • SOCI-6182 (Community Development) Section: D01

Spring 2016 Sections

  • SOCI-4053 (Sociological Theory) Section: 01
  • SOCI-4999 (Sociology Global Development) Section: 01
  • SOCI-5053 (Sociological Theory) Section: 01
  • SOCI-6305 (Advanced Sociological Theory) Section: 01
  • SOCI-6999 (Thesis) Section: 02

Fall 2015 Sections

  • SOCI-4053 (Sociological Theory) Section: 01
  • SOCI-4333 (Urban Sociology) Section: 01
  • SOCI-5053 (Sociological Theory) Section: 01
  • SOCI-6182 (Urban Sociology) Section: 01

Summer 2015 Sections

  • SOCI-3283 (Globalization) Section: E01
  • POLS-5985 (Community Development) Section: 01
  • CRIM-6182 (Community Development) Section: 01
  • SOCI-6182 (Community Development) Section: 01

Noori, Neema. 2006. "Expanding State Authority, Cutting Back Local Services: Decentralization and its Contradictions in Uzbekistan". Central Asia Survey 24, 533-549.