Jytte Klausen
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Jytte Klausen is a Danish-born scholar of politics who teaches at Brandeis University
in Massachusetts.
Klausen is a graduate of the University of Aarhus
who earned her doctorate at the New School for Social Research in New York.
In 2009, controversy arose when Yale University Press
decided to expunge reproductions of the cartoons involved in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
, along with all other images of Muhammad
from a scholarly book entitled “The Cartoons that Shook the World
," written by Klausen.
Brandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
in Massachusetts.
Klausen is a graduate of the University of Aarhus
University of Aarhus
Aarhus University , located in the city of Aarhus, Denmark, is Denmark's second oldest and second largest university...
who earned her doctorate at the New School for Social Research in New York.
In 2009, controversy arose when Yale University Press
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous....
decided to expunge reproductions of the cartoons involved in the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began after 12 editorial cartoons, most of which depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005...
, along with all other images of Muhammad
Muhammad
Muhammad |ligature]] at U+FDF4 ;Arabic pronunciation varies regionally; the first vowel ranges from ~~; the second and the last vowel: ~~~. There are dialects which have no stress. In Egypt, it is pronounced not in religious contexts...
from a scholarly book entitled “The Cartoons that Shook the World
The Cartoons that Shook the World
The Cartoons that Shook the World is a 2009 book by Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen about the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. Klausen contends that the controversy was deliberately stoked up by people with vested interests on all sides, and argues against the view that it...
," written by Klausen.
Works
- The Cartoons that Shook the WorldThe Cartoons that Shook the WorldThe Cartoons that Shook the World is a 2009 book by Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen about the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. Klausen contends that the controversy was deliberately stoked up by people with vested interests on all sides, and argues against the view that it...
, Yale University Press, 2009. - The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe. Oxford University Press (UK and US), publication date October 27, 2005.
- Has Liberalism Failed Women? Assuring Equal Representation in Europe and the United States. Co-edited with Charles S. Maier. Palgrave, 2001.
- War and Welfare: Europe and the United States, 1945 to the Present. St. Martin's Press (U.S.) and Macmillan (U.K.), 1998. 2nd edition Palgrave 2001.
- European Integration in a Social and Historical Perspective, 1850 to the Present. Co-edited with Louise A. Tilly. Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.