Prof. James Toth

James Toth [Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY)] serves as a Lecturer in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University. His areas of research and interests include Political Economy, Labor and Rural Workers, Comparative Religion, Third World Social Movements, Third World Development, the Middle East, and the Arab and Islamic Worlds.

Selected Publications:
Local Islam Gone Global: The Roots of Religious Militancy in Egypt and Its Transnational Transformation, in June Nash, ed. Global Social Movements: A Reader, November, 2004.
Globalizing Rural Egypt: Women, Men, and the Agrarian Division of Labor, in Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Mediterranee. Special issue: Le travail et la question sociale, Elizabeth Longuenesse, ed. February, 2005.
Beating Plowshares into Swords: The Relocation of Rural Egyptian Workers and Their Discontent, in No. Hopkins and K. Westergaard, eds. Directions of Change in Rural Egypt, Cairo: American University Press, 1998.
Rural Labor Movements in Egypt and Their Impact on the State, 1961-1992, University Press of Florida (world rights) and the American University in Cairo Press (Middle East rights only), 1999.

External Affiliations:
American Anthropological Association, Middle East Section
American Anthropological Association, Anthropology of Work Section
Middle East Studies Association
American Research Center in Egypt
Social Research center, the American University in Cairo
Center for Arabic Studies Abroad, The American University in Cairo and Emory University