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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES -- Kristin Smith Diwan

Kristin Smith Diwan
E-mail: diwan@american.edu
Phone: 202-885-1640

Professor Smith Diwan researches political economy, the politics of the Middle East, and Islam and politics. She has presented papers on Islamic Banking, Islamist-Liberal politics in Kuwait, and cultural resistance to economic integration. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Fulbright Grant, a Mellon Fellowship, a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, and a Social Science Research Council NMERTA Grant. Professor Smith Diwan has also published a number of articles on the politics on the Middle East including Divided Government in Kuwait: The Politics of Parliament since the Gulf War (1999), Islamic Banking and the Politics of International Financial Harmonization (2005), and Kuwait Finance House and the Islamization of Public Life in Kuwait (2004). Her dissertation, From Petrodollars to Islamic Dollars, develops an analytic framework through which to explain the emergence of Islamic banking. Professor Smith Diwan received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and joins the CRS Program at SIS.

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