I am a scholar of comparative politics with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa. My research focuses on social and economic policymaking, women’s economic and political participation, and how public policy, law, and citizen-state interactions shape social norms. I am particularly interested in how policy design and implementation affect citizen attitudes toward governance and political behavior in authoritarian regimes. My work combines qualitative and quantitative methods, including elite interviewing, focus groups, survey and field experiments, and computational approaches. At Princeton I have worked as a research assistant for the Arab Barometer; been an instructor for courses on international development, Islam and politics, the politics of empire, and applied quantitative analysis; and served as coordinator of the Politics department’s Qualitative Research Colloquium. In 2018-2019 I was a Fulbright grantee to Morocco, and before coming to Princeton I was a research fellow in the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
PhD Candidate in Politics, 2022 (expected)
Princeton University
MA in Politics, 2017
Princeton University
MSc in Middle East Politics, 2012
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
MA in Islamic Studies, 2011
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Certificate in Arabic Language Studies, 2010
Center for Arabic Study Abroad (Cairo)
BSFS in Culture and Politics, 2009
Georgetown University