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Bio/CV I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I study and teach on Middle East politics, International Relations, religion, gender, political violence, quantitative methodology, and interpretive methodology. My first book, Deadly Clerics (2017, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics series), explores why some Muslim clerics adopt the ideology of militant Jihad while most do not. Some of my other research is published or forthcoming in The American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, and Sociological Methods and Research. I am the developer of free software tools for Arabic text analysis, causal inference, and qualitative case selection.At MIT, I am the faculty director of the Middle East and North Africa/MIT program and I am affiliated with the Center for International Studies (CIS), the Security Studies Program (SSP), the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), the Political Methodology Lab, and the IPE group. I hold a PhD in Government (2013) and an AM in Statistics (2010) from Harvard University, and a BA in Political Science (2007) from Brigham Young University. |
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