John C . Calvert, BA, PhD

Department

History

Position

Professor

Books

• Calvert John, Subjects, Citizens, and Others: Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867-1918 2019
• Calvert John, EGYPT-Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash that Shaped the Middle East 2018
• Quṭb Sayyid, A child from the village 2016
• The Routledge History of Terrorism
  Calvert John, THE ROOTS OF ISLAMISM AND ISLAMIST VIOLENCE [Book Chapter] 2015
• Arabian Peninsula in Age of Oil 2014
• The Arabian Peninsula in Age of Oil
  Calvert John, Picture Credits [Book Chapter] 2014
• The Arabian Peninsula in Age of Oil
  Calvert John, The Politics of Oil [Book Chapter] 2014
• The Arabian Peninsula in Age of Oil
  Calvert John, The Gulf War and its Aftermath [Book Chapter] 2014
• The Arabian Peninsula in Age of Oil
  Calvert John, Political Developments in the Gulf [Book Chapter] 2014
• The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe
  Calvert John, Wayward Son: The Muslim Brothers’ Reception of Sayyid Qutb [Book Chapter] 2013
• Berger L G, Religious Fundamentalism as an Obstacle to Peace in the Middle East: Under What Conditions Might Pragmatism Prevail? 2012
• Calvert John, Sayyid Qutb and the origins of radical Islamism 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, Intro [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, TURN TO ISLAMISM [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, MARTYRDOM [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, THE MAKING OF AN EGYPTIAN NATIONALIST [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, IN THE ORBIT OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERS [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, RADICALIZATI ON [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, EPILOUGE: THE TRAJECTORY OF ‘QUTBISM’ [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, AMERICAN SOJOURN [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, SON OF THE COUNTRY [Book Chapter] 2011
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, A Note on Transliteration [Book Chapter] 2011
• Calvert John C., Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism 2010
• Calvert John, Divisions within Islam 2010
• , Sunni Islam 2010
• , Shiism 2010
• Encyclopedia of African Thought
  Calvert John C., Gamal Abdul Nasser [Book Chapter] 2010
• Encyclopedia of African Thought
  Calvert John C., Ibn Khaldoun [Book Chapter] 2010
• Sayyid Qutb and the origins of radical Islam 2009
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, Half-title [Book Chapter] 2009
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, Radicalization [Book Chapter] 2009
• Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism
  Calvert John, Epilogue the Trajectory of ‘Qutbism’ [Book Chapter] 2009
• Encyclopedia of African Biography
  Calvert John C., Ibn Battuta [Book Chapter] 2009
• Calvert John C., Islamism: A Documentary and Reference Guide. 2008
• Terrorism, democracy: the west & the muslim world
  Calvert John, The 'Mythic' Foundations of Radical Islamist Violence [Book Chapter] 2007
• Calvert John C., The Arabian Peninsula in the age of oil (The making of the Middle East) 2007
• World Book Encyclopedia
  Calvert John C., Madrasah [Book Chapter] 2005
• Calvert John, Securalism and the Arab World 2004
• , Islam and modernity 2004
• Calvert J, Radical Islamism and the Jews: The view of Sayyid Qutb 1996
• Calvert John, EARLE H. WAUGH, SHARON McIRVIN ABU-LABAN and REGULA BURCKHARDT QURESHI, editors 'Muslim Families in North America' (Book Review) 1992

Publications

• Calvert John, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison 2021
• Calvert John, War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought 2020
• Calvert John, Sons of the Country: Nasser, Qutb, and the Struggle that Defined Egypt 2019
• Orient - Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Politik und Wirtschaft des Orients
  Calvert John, The Historical Contingency of Islamist Discourse in Egypt: Sayyid Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood
  54:1, p. 45 - 51 2013
• Calvert John C., Sayyid Qutb: The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual 2013
• Orient - Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Politik und Wirtschaft des Orients
  Calvert John, Regional Struggle in the Shadow of Pan-Islamic Militancy: Examples from Indonesia and Bosnia
  52:4, p. 31 - 34 2011
• Foreign Policy
  Calvert John C., The Afterlife of Sayyid Qutb 2010
• Calvert JOHN, MANSOOR MOADDEL, Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Pp. 448. $24.00 paper 2007
• International Journal of Middle East Studies
  Calvert John C., Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism: Episode and Discourse (Book Review)
  39:3, p. 461 - 462 2007
• Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society
  Calvert John C., The Striving Shaykh: Abdullah Azzam and the Revival of Jihad.
  2007:Supplement Series 2 2007
• History of political thought
  Calvert J, The quaker theory of a civil constitution
  XXVII:4, p. 586 - 619 2006
• Al-Katib
  Calvert John C., Pigeons in New York
  1949, p. 666 - 669 2005
• Al-Risala
  Calvert John C., The America I Saw
  959:1951, p. 1301 - 1306 2005
• Al-Risala
  Calvert John C., Our First Enemy: The White Man.
  1952, p. 1217 - 1219 2005
• Historical reflections
  Calvert John, Sayyid Qutb and the Power of Political Myth: Insights from Sorel
  30:3, p. 509 - 528 2004
• Historical reflections
  Calvert J, Islam and modernity - Introduction
  30:3, p. 359 - 361 2004
• Calvert JOHN, NAZIK SABA YARED, Secularism and the Arab World (1850–1939) (London: Saqi Books, 2002). Pp. 251 2004
• Calvert John C., Secularism and the Arab world (1850-1939) 2004
• Orbis (Philadelphia)
  Peters Edward, The American encounter with Islam
  48:1, p. 3 - 41 2004
• Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs
  Calvert John C., The Mythic Foundations of Radical Islam
  48:1, p. 29 - 41 2004
• Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs
  Calvert John C., The Islamist Syndrome of Cultural Confrontation
  46:2, p. 333 - 349 2002
• ISIM Newsletter
  Calvert J, Sayyid Qutb in America
  7:1, p. 8 - 8 2001
• Calvert John, The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths; Haggai Erlich; Israel Gershoni, Eds 2000
• Calvert John, Review of 'Khaled Mohi El Din, Memories of a Revolution The American University in Cairo Press (1995)' 1999

Presentations

• "Political and radical Islamism: Disjuncture and Continuity," TRADOC (US Army Training and Doctrine Command), Leavenworth KS, One-day seminar, Oct. 17, 2014. 2014
• One-day Seminar on Unrestricted Warfare STRATCOM, March 3, 2014. 2014
• "Egypt and the Arab Spring," Greybackers luncheon, Founders Week, Creighton University, January 20, 2014. 2014
• "The Conflict in Syria," The Rotary Club of Omaha, Omaha Country Club, September 20, 2013. 2013
• "The Origins of Radical Islam," W. Dale Clark Library, Omaha, NE, June 1, 2013. 2013
• "The Arab Spring," Rotary Club of Omaha, Champions Club, October 4, 2012. 2012
• "Egypt and the Arab Spring," Bnai Brith, Henry Monsky Lodge, Omaha, August 14, 2011. 2011
• Book event, "The Origins of Radical Islamism," Dar al-Kotob, Cairo, Egypt, June 15, 2011. 2011
• "Developments in the Middle East: An Open Forum with Dr. John Calvert," Skutt Student Center, Creighton University, Feb. 24, 2011. 2011
• Panelist, Situation in Egypt and the Middle East, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Feb. 10, 2011 2011
• Panelist, "The Hidden World of Human Trafficking: Turkey, Ukraine and Belarus," sponsored by Kenefick Chair in Humanities, Creighton University, 29 September, 2010. 2010
• "Afghanistan and the Taliban," Crete, Nebraska Library, Nebraska Humanities Council April. 16, 2010. 2010
• Instructor, TRADOC (US Army Training and Doctrine Command), Leavenworth KS, September 2008 September 2010, prepared and taught monthly courses on Islamism, jihadism and the Religions of Iraq. 2008

Other

• Research and reporting on the Kabyles of Algeria; for the Center of Constitutional Rights, New York; case pertaining to a Guantanamo prisoner. June 2009.

• Social protest and political resistance movements in the modern Middle East (19th and 20th centuries); radical Islamist ideology and practice in the Middle East and South and South East Asia; the intersections of Islam and nationalism.

• The origins of Islamism in Egypt, with special reference to the Islamist ideologue Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966); the presence of Islam in the political cultures of Egypt and Algeria; the ideological genealogy of Al Qaeda; Pan-Islam and British policy in Egypt 1900-1910.

Awards

• Outstanding Publications and Book Awards
  Recognition for my book Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism. The Atlantic Monthly (15 December 2010): "Outstanding book from 2010 in Middle East Studies; " Foreign Policy (15 December, 2010): "best book of 2010; " The Immanent Frame, the Social Science Research Council's blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere, "Book of the Week", 17 August, 2010; The Guardian (27 November, 2010), One of the "Books of the year."
  Various organizations
• Faculty Award
  The Faculty Award recognizes and honors the outstanding achievements and contributions by a faculty member that has made a significant impact upon the students and mission of the Student The Faculty Award recognizes and honors the outstanding achievements and contributions by a faculty member that has made a significant impact upon the students and mission of the Student Support Services program.
  Student Support Services
• Award for Scholarship
  Dean's Award for Scholarship, Creighton College of Arts and Sciences, 2011
  Dean
  Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
• Special Recognition of Casper Professorship
  Dean's Special Recognition of Casper Professorship, 8 February 2010
  Dean of College of Arts and Sciences

Consulting

• Consultant to B'huth
  Consulting
  Consultant to B'huth Media and Consultancy Services, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, August 2006 - 2010.
  2006 - 2006