He is the co-author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005) and the author of Lenin, Hegel and Western Marxism: A Critical Study (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995). Currently, he is a participant in the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, an international project to publish the whole of the writing of Marx and Engels, for which he is helping to edit a volume on non-Western societies and gender.