{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:25:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:25:34","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/barfi\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Badredine Arfi<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/barfi\/files\/arfib-199x300.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/barfi\/files\/arfib-199x300.png\" alt=\"arfib-199x300\" class=\"wp-image-143\" style=\"width:153px;height:auto\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Professor of Political Science<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"> University of Florida Research Foundation Professor<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ph.D. Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ph.D. Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research and Teaching Interests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Theories of international politics and security,\u00a0 ethnic conflicts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Methodology and epistemology: <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AI, deep machine learning, topological data analysis &#8211; TDA, category theory, fuzzy logic methodology, quantum-theoretic approaches to social theory, statistical methods<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><strong>Python computer programming.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Religion and democratic theory, politics of Islam.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Deconstruction applied to social theory.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Department of Political Science<br>\n234 Anderson Hall<br>\nUniversity of Florida<br>\nP.O. Box 117325<br>\nGainesville, FL\u00a0 32611-7325<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:barfi@ufl.edu\">barfi@ufl.edu <\/a><br>\nPhone: 352-273-2357<br>\nFax: 352-392-8127<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Office Hours: \u00a0T: 8:30am &#8211; 10:00am, R: 2:30pm-4:00pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spring 2026 Courses:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>POS 4931 &#8211; AI in Politics<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>POS 6933 &#8211; Bayesian Statistics<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":480,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/barfi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/barfi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/barfi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/barfi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/barfi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/barfi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/barfi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/barfi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}