Charles Kurzman and Carl W. Ernst, “Islamic Studies in U.S. Universities”, in At the Precipice: Middle East Studies and the American University, ed. Seteney Shami and Cynthia Miller-Idriss (New York: New York University Press, 2012).
Kurzman and Ernst are co-directors of UNC Chapel Hill’s Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations.
Charles Kurzman is a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of “The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists” (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Carl Ernst, UNC Chapel Hill Professor of Religious Studies, is a specialist in Islamic studies, with a focus on West and South Asia.