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Faculty Profile: Sohail Hashmi

Associate Professor of International Relations on the Alumnae Foundation; Chair of International Relations

Contact:
Skinner Hall, Room 111
413-538-2666
shashmi@mtholyoke.edu

Education:

• Harvard University, Ph.D., A.M., A.B.
• Princeton University, M.A.

Joined MHC: 1994

Specialization: Religion and politics, particularly the role of Islam in domestic and international relations; ethics and international relations, particularly the comparative ethics of war and peace; Middle East politics

Sohail Hashmi has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the National Resource Fellowship, the Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Collaborative Research Grant, and the W. Alton Jones Fellowship on the Nuclear Threat. He is the author and editor of numerous publications on Islam, international relations, and comparative ethics.

Hashmi earns high praise from his students and colleagues for his dedication to teaching participants to form opinions about contemporary issues and current events using a wide range of publications and data. He teaches a wide variety of classes, including an introductory world politics course and seminars such as Just War and Jihad: Comparative Ethics of War and Peace; Comparative Politics of North Africa; and Ethics and International Relations.

Web Resources:

• Sohail Hashmi’s Home Page
• “Hashmi Examines World of International Ethics," College Street Journal, March 9, 2001
• “The Terrorists' Zealotry Is Political Not Religious," by Sohail Hashmi, Washington Post, September 30, 2001