Camron Michael Amin (Ph.D, U of Chicago, 1996) is an associate professor of history at The University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is the author of The Making of the Modern Woman: Gender, State Policy and Popular Culture, 1865-1946 (2002) and a co-editor of The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook (2005). His current research projects include studies of higher education, journalism and globalization in Iran. And he really needs more sleep than he gets.