DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Program Area(s):  Comparative Politics; Methods; International Relations

Regional Specialization(s):  Middle East

Dissertation Committee:  Wendy Pearlman (chair), Ana Arjona, Iza Ding, Jordan Gans-Morse

Recent Publications:

• “The Pictures and the Frame: Banknote Iconography and Bottom-Up Nationalism in Pre-and Post-Revolutionary Tunisia” (with Jacques Hymans). 2026. Nations and Nationalism. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.70089

Honors/Awards:

• 2026 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
• 2026 Minar Award Grant (Northwestern Political Science Department)
• 2025 Marvin and Carol Soroos Grant (Northwestern Political Science Department)
• 2025 and 2026 MENA Summer Language and Research Grant (MENA Program, Northwestern University)
• 2025 Summer Language Training Award, Roberta Buffett Institute (Northwestern University)
• 2025 Historical and Political Economy (HPE) Project Grant (external)
• 2024 Society for Political Methodology - Polmeth travel funding grant (external)
• 2024-2025 Mellon Cluster Fellow (Northwestern MENA Program)
• Spring 2020 - Kuwait Program Award for Best Graduate Paper (MA), Sciences Po Paris"