Timothy Mitchell Professor of Politics, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Ph.D. 1984 (politics), Princeton; B.A. 1977 (law and history), Cambridge. Email: Phone:  (212) 998 8537 Office Address:  NYU Department of Politics, 19 W. 4th Street New York, NY 10012 Office Room Number:  208 Personal Homepage For a full list of my work, see my Vita.

Areas of Research/Interest: Middle East politics, political economy, postcolonial theory.

Select Publications:
Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002
Questions of Modernity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
McJihad: Islam in the U.S. Global Order. Social Text , Winter 2003
Fixing the Economy. Cultural Studies 12, 1998 , 82-101
The Limits of the State. American Political Science Review 85, 1991, 77-96.
Everyday Metaphors of Power. Theory and Society 19, 1990, 545-77.
Colonising Egypt. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1988.

Papers

• The Work of Economics: How a Discipline Makes its World (.pdf) (2005), European Journal of Sociology, 45 no. 2: 297-320.
• Economists and the Economy in the Twentieth Century (2005), in The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and its Epistemological Others, edited by George Steinmetz.
• The Properties of Markets (2004). Working Paper No. 2, Cultural Political Economy Research Group, University of Lancaster.
  
• The Middle East in the Past and Future of Social Science (2003). In The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines, edited by David Szanton.
• The Stage of Modernity (2000). In Questions of Modernity, edited by Timothy Mitchell
• Society, Economy, and the State Effect (1999). In State/Culture: State-Formation After the Cultural Turn, edited by George Steinmetz.
• Fixing the Economy (1998). Cultural Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 82-101.
• The Object of Development: America's Egypt (1995). In Power of Development, edited by Jonathan Crush.
  
• The Limits of the State (1991). American Political Science Review, vol. 85, 77-96
• Everyday Metaphors of Power (1990). Theory and Society, vol. 19, 545-577

Fellowships/Honors: Ford Foundation grant, "Crossing Borders, Revitalizing Area Studies," 1997-2002; American Research Center in Egypt Fellowship, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1996-1997; Sawyer Fellow, Advanced Study Center, University of Michigan, 1995; Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Transnational Research Grant, 1992-1993.

External Affiliations: Editorial Collective, Social Text; Contributing Editor, Midde East Report; Editorial Board, Journal of Historical Sociology.