About Me

I am an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP) and School of Global Studies (formerly School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies) at the University of Arizona, and a non-resident fellow of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. A scholar of comparative politics with a regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa, I earned my Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in 2022. My research focuses on how public opinion, social norms, and political behavior in the Middle East and North Africa evolve in response to women’s rights reforms and other social policies, and how perceived social norms influence women’s presence in politics and the labor market. My Ph.D. dissertation, Perceived Norms and the Politics of Women’s Rights in Morocco, was awarded Best Dissertation by the APSA MENA Politics Section in 2023 and an Honorable Mention for Best Fieldwork by the APSA Democracy & Autocracy Section in 2022. My work combines qualitative and quantitative methods, including elite interviewing, focus groups, and survey and field experiments. I have published in The Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Political Science Research & Methods, Politics & Gender, PS: Political Science and Politics, Middle East Law and Governance, and Hawwa. I teach undergraduate courses on the International Politics of the Middle East, Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, and the Politics of International Development, and a graduate seminar on Gender and Politics. In 2018-2019 I was a Fulbright grantee to Morocco, and before earning a Ph.D. I was a research fellow in the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.