Phone: 312-355-0128
Fax: 312-413-0440
E-Mail: sultant@uic.edu

Fields of Interest:
Comparative Politics, Democratization, Religion and Politics, Political Parties, Radical Political Groups, Research Methods, Survey and Questionnaire Design to Study Religion and Political Participation, Judicial Reforms, Middle Eastern Politics.  

Current Research Areas:
Comparative analyses of religious parties, (im)moderation of religious parties and groups, Political Manifestations and Civic Engagements of Religious Identities in Global Cities.

Selected Publications:
"Moderation of Religious Parties: Electoral Constraints, Ideological Committments and the Democratic Capacities of Religious Parties in Israel and Turkey." Political Research Quarterly, February 2012, (DOI:10.1177/1065912911434473)

"(Not) Getting Religion: Has Political Science Lost Sight of Islam?" Politics and Religion, Volume 4, Number 2, April 2011.

Nation-State in Islam, Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton University Press, 2011.

"Serving God through the Market: The Emergence of Religious Consumptionspaces." Islamic Marketing, Gillian Rice and Ozlem Sandikci (eds), Edward Elgar, 2011. (peer reviewed)

Beyond Sacred and Secular: Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey Stanford University Press, 2008 

"Politics between Market and Islam: The Electoral Puzzles and Changing Prospects of Pro-Islamic Parties."  Mediterranean Quarterly. Volume 18, Number 2, Spring 2007, pp. 107-135

Selected Collected Survey Data:
Comparative Religious Party Support I, 2003
Comparative Religious Party Support II, 2005

Selected Research Grants and Honors:
United States Institute of Peace Grant
University Of Illinois at Chicago, Campus Research Board Grant
University Of Illinois at Chicago, Office of Social Science Grant
Ford Foundation Social Science Concept Research Grant
Association of American University Women Fellowship
University of Texas at Austin, Malcolm Macdonald Fellowship
University of Texas at Austin, University Continuing Fellowships
University of Texas at Austin Teaching Excellence