EDUCATION

Ph. D.	1974	Sociology	University of Washington
M. A.	1970	Sociology	University of Washington
B. S.	1966	Mathematics	University of Washington

EMPLOYMENT

2002-Present	Associate Dean for Special Projects College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Portland State University
1998-Present	Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology Portland State University
1975-to Present	Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology Portland State University
1994-1996	Director, PSU/OSU Partnership Project Osh State University, Osh, Kyrgyzstan
1987-1992	Director, Middle East Studies Center Portland State University
1990-1992	Vice Provost for International Education Portland State University
1983-1984	Senior Fulbright Visiting Professor University of Peshawar Peshawar, Pakistan
1973-1975	Assistant Professor, Department of National Development Pahlavi University Shiraz, Iran
1968-1970	Mathematics Teacher Olympic Junior High School Auburn, Washington
1966-1968	Peace Corps Volunteer Kabul, Afghanistan

Honorary Positions

Honorary Professor

Osh State University
Osh Kyrgyzstan

Publications

Dissertation:

Stratification in Non-Industrial Societies, 1974. Director: Herbert Costner.

Books:

Globalization: A Sociological Approach. 2002. McGraw-Hill: Boston (In Production)

Global Societies. 2000. Allyn and Bacon: Needham Heights, MA.

Modern Iran. 1998. McGraw-Hill: Boston.

Afghan Resistance: The Politics of Survival, edited by Grant M. Farr and John G. Merriam, Westview Special Studies in Social, Political and Economic Development, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1987.

Chapters

"Central Asians," 2004. The Encyclopedia of New York State.

“The Hazara of Central Afghanistan,” 2002. Endangered Peoples: Struggle to Sustain Cultural Survival. Greenwood Publishing Group. (Forthcoming)

“Afghanistan: Displaced in a Devastated Country,” 2001 .Caught between Borders: Response Strategies of the Internally Displaced. Edited by Marc Vincent and Brigitte Sorensen, London:Pluto Press, pp. 117-137.

“Global Stratification,” 1999. Sociology: Understanding a Diverse Society. Belmont: Wadsworth.

“Refugee Aid and Development in Pakistan: Afghan Aid After Ten Years,” Refugee Aid and Development:Theory and Practice, edited by Robert F. Gorman, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1993, pp. 111-128.

“Afghan Refugees in Pakistan: Definition, Repatriation and Ethnicity,” The Cultural Basis of Afghan Nationalism, edited by Ewan Anderson and Nancy Hatch Dupree, Pinter Publisher, London, England, 1990, pp. 134-143.

“The Afghan New Middle Class as Refugees and Insurgents,” Afghan Resistance: The Politics of Survival, edited by Grant M. Farr and John G. Merriam, Westview Press, 1987, pp. 127-151.

“The Effects of the Afghan Refugees on Pakistan,” Zia’s Pakistan: Politics and Stability of a Frontline States, edited by Craig Baxter, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1985, pp. 110-134.

Articles

“Islam in Afghanistan,”The Afghanistan Studies Journal, pp. 30-40 (Vol. 5, 1997).

“Afghanistan: The Failure of the Mojahedin,” Middle East International, pp. 19-20 (Vol. 476, May 27, 1994).

“Afghanistan: Light at the End of the Tunnel?”Middle East International, pp. 19, 20 (April 3, 1992).

“The Rise and Fall of an Indigenous Resistance Group: The Shura of the Hazarajat,” Afghanistan Studies Journal, p. 48-61 (Spring, 1988).

“People in Crisis: The Afghan Refugees,” Rendezvous: Special Edition on the Middle East. Pp. 1-10 (1988).

“Afghan Agricultural Production: 1978 to 1982” (with Dr. Azam Gul), Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, pp. 65-79 (Fall 1984).

“Social Status and Fertility: A Study of a Town and Three Villages in Northwestern Iran,” (with Drs. Byron and Mary Jo Good), Population Studies, pp. 55-75 (Summer, 1980).

“An Examination of Recent Hypotheses about Institutional Inbreeding” (with Lowell Hargens), American Journal of Sociology, May 1973, pp. 1381-1401.

“Computer Simulation of Interpersonal Choice,” (with Robert Leik), Comparative Groups Studies, May 1971, pp. 125-48.

Encyclopedia Entries

“Central Asians In New York,” 2001. Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups in New York. In Press.

More than fifty entries on Afghanistan, The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, Columbia University Press, 1996.

“Diaspora:Afghan in Pakistan,” Encyclopedia Iranica, Columbia University Press.

Book Reviews

“The Fateful Pebble:Afghanistan’s Role in the Fall of the Soviet Empire,” The Afghanistan Studies Journal, pp. 67-74 (Vol. 3, 1992).

“Political Order in Postcommunist Afghanistan,” DOMES, June 1993, pp. 67-70.

“Holy Blood: An Inside View of the Afghan War,” The Journal of Afghanistan Studies, pp. 116-120 (Vol. 4, 1994).

Editors Comments and Other Scholarly Contributions

“Editor’s Note,” The Afghanistan Studies Journal, pp. 2-5 (Vol. 5, 1997).

“The Health of Afghanistan,” The Afghanistan Studies Journal, pp. 1-4, (Vol. 4, 1994).

“A New Beginning: Editor’s Note,” The Afghanistan Studies Journal, pp. 3, 4 (Vol. 3, 1992).

“The Study of Afghanistan: Where to Next?” The Afghanistan Studies Journal, pp. 3-5 (Vol. 2, 1990-1991).

Presentations

“Islam in Afghanistan,” at The Islamic Awakening: Its Likely Impact on Regional Stability, Sponsored by the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis, May 23, 24, 1994.

“Refugees and Resistance:Afghan Lesson for Central Asia,” Presentation at Central Asia and its Borderlands, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, February 28, 1994.

"Update on Afghan Refugee Repatriation,” Presentation at the Middle East Studies Association meeting, October 29, 1992, Portland, OR.

“Afghan Refugees in Pakistan and America,” International Conference on Refugees, York University North York, Ontario, May 1991.

“The Iranian Connection and the Afghan War,” paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association meetings in Boston, Mass., November 21, 23, 1986.

“Current Situation Among the Afghan Refugees in Pakistan,” paper presented at the 15^th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, November 7, 8, 9, 1986.

“The Afghan Refugee Problem,” paper presented to conference on Politics of Pakistan: Prospects for the Future, sponsored by the Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C., November 15, 1985.

“The Plight of the Afghan Middle Class,” paper delivered at South Asian Studies Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, November 1-3, 1985.

“Afghan Intellectuals as Refugees and Insurgents,” paper delivered at the South Asian Studies Meetings at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, November 2-4, 1984, and at the Middle East Studies Association Meetings on November 29-December 1, 1984.

“Update on Afghanistan,” paper delivered to the Middle East Studies Association Meetings in Chicago, Illinois, November 1983.

“Afghanistan,” paper presented to the panel on the Middle East at the American Sociological Association Meetings, August, 1982.

“The Myth of Religion and the Structural Variables in the Iranian Revolution,” paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association meetings, March 1981, Portland, Oregon

. “Stress and Intergenerational Mobility” (with R.K. Hancock and R. L. Enseki), paper presented at the Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, Spring 1979, Anaheim, California.

Grants and Contracts

USIA, Principle Investigator, Newly Independent State Linkage Program, Osh State University and Portland State University, September 15, 1994 to September 14, 1996, funded by United States Information Agency, $298,285.

USAID Consultant, Afghan Community Involvement in Education Program, August 15, 1993 to September 12, 1993.

USAID Consultant, Educational Sector Support Program, Peshawar, Pakistan, April and May, 1993.

Principle Investigaor, Repatriation of the Afghan Refugees, Spring and Summer 1993,

Grant for Research and Travel to Afghanistan to study Afghan repatriation issues, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Ontario, Canada, $2,500. USDE,

Principle Investigator, Northwest Regional Consortium for Middle East Studies, University of Washingtona nd Portland State University, National Resource Centers and Fellowship Program, funded by U.S. Department of Education Title VI, Annual Amount $55,000.

Principle Investigator, Middle East Forum 1991, Oregon Council for the Humanities, 1991, Amount $2,800.

Principle Investigator, Middle East Forum 1992, Oregon Council for the Humanities, 1992, Amount $4,818.

Technical Reports

“Afghanistan Population Estimates and Provincial School Enrollment Rates,” (September 10, 1993) USAID, Peshawar, Pakistan.

“Pilot Project for Community Involvement in Education,” (September 10, 1993) USAID, Peshawar, Pakistan.

“Briefing Report:UNO/ESSP Cross Border Primary Education,” (May1, 1993) USAID, Peshawar, Pakistan.

“Afghanistan’s Minority Groups:Problems in the Reconstruction of Afghanistan,” (1989) contract with U.S. Government.

“Factors of Repatriation:The Return to Afghanistan,” (Spring 1988) contract with U.S. Government.

“Update on the Afghan Struggle,” (Fall 1987) contract with U.S. Government.

“Iran and the Afghan Struggle,” (1986) contract with the United States Government.

“Cultural and Societal Constraints on Guerrilla War in Afghanistan,” (1986) contract with the United States Government.

“The Current State Among the Afghan Refugees in Pakistan,” (1986) contract with the United States Government.

“The Situation Among the Hazarajat in Afghanistan,” (1985) contract with the United States Government.

“Islamic Fundamentalism and the Afghan War,” (1985) contract with the United States Government.

“Why Afghan Insurgents Choose to Fight,” (1984) contract report for the United States Government

.“Afghan Refugees in Pakistan,” (1984) contract report for the United States Government.

Service to the Community

Consultant with United States Agency for International Development.Consulted on Project To Assess And Redesign Educational Sector Support Project For Cross-Border Aid to Afghanistan in Peshawar and Quetta, Pakistan (Fall 1998).

Co Authored Amended Activity Approval Memorandum for the Educational Sector Support Project Afghanistan.

Consultant with United States Agency for International Development.Consultant to Afghanistan Educational Sector Support Project, Peshawar, Pakistan, April and September 1993. United States Department of State:

Consultant on a number of projects regarding US foreign policy towards Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran.

Authored several technical reports on the Afghan situation.

Community Service

Public Speaking: Speak at public forums on the Middle East including at High Schools

Local Media: Appear on local radio and TV News Programs.

Commentaries: Write periodic commentaries for the Oregonian on Middle East Issues.