Toni Rouhana

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department

Regular Faculty

Science Hall Room 292D

Department of Sociology Attention: Dr. Rouhana 1305 Frenger Mall, SH 286

Las Cruces, NM 88003

trouhana@nmsu.edu

619-817-6171

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Toni Rouhana is Assistant Professor of Sociology at NMSU. His interdisciplinary research focuses on war, social movements, religious sectarianism, and political emotion both online and offline, combining sociological theory with computational methods and fieldwork, including research conducted in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, to examine how sect identities are constructed, mobilized, and transformed over time. He has built an extensive online data collection around the Syrian civil war, comprising millions of tweets, Facebook posts and news articles. His work employs innovative methodologies including ethnography, discourse analysis, and digital data analysis to understand how sect identities manifest and are reproduced in daily life. He has published articles in Information, Communication and Society, First Monday, and Ethnopolitics. He holds a PhD in Sociology with a designated emphasis in the History of Consciousness at the University of California Santa Cruz, as well as an MS in Computer Engineering at the Antonine University in Lebanon. Before joining the Sociology Department at NMSU, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War at the University of York, where he conducted a comparative study of the role that sect identities play before, during, and after the wars that took place in Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon. He is currently co-authoring a book titled “Civil War as a Social Process: Systems of Relations in Colombia, Lebanon, Nepal, and South Sudan.”