Carrie Ruth Rosefsky Wickham *96

Carrie died Feb. 5, 2026, of breast cancer in Atlanta.

Born in 1962 in Binghamton, N.Y., Carrie earned an undergraduate degree in social studies at Harvard in 1983 and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton in 1996. Her dissertation was “Political mobilization under authoritarian rule: Explaining Islamic activism in Mubarak’s Egypt.”

Carrie taught Middle Eastern Studies at Emory University, specializing in political Islam and social movements, and developed an interest in social justice and women’s rights. After joining the Emory faculty in 1994, Carrie taught 30 courses, 13 of which she created. She received the Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Carrie conducted research with government officials, scholars, and thought leaders across the Arab world. She was awarded a research fellowship at the Library of Congress, lectured at the State Department and the CIA, and appeared in a feature on CNN. She was the author of two books: Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism, and Political Change in Egypt (Columbia University Press) and The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement (Princeton University Press).

She is survived by her daughters Anna and Iris; three siblings; her parents, and her life partner, Walter.

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