Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
10 Prospect Ave
Room 302
Northampton
MA
01060
United States
ABOUT
Bozena Welborne teaches courses in Middle East politics, international political economy, global development, and women and politics. Prior to Smith, Welborne was an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is also a contributing scholar to the Women and Human Rights in the Middle East Program at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
Welborne's current research considers the impact of foreign capital and Arab diaspora networks on institutional reform and social change in the Middle East and North Africa with a focus on gender. Her book project, "The Business of Ballots: Financial Globalization and Women’s Political Agency in the Arab World," is based on two years of field research across Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain, and Yemen. Welborne is also a principal investigator on the co-authored book, "The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States," coming out with Cornell University press in 2018.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Comparative
Development
Gender/Women's Studies
Globalization
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Islamic World
North America
Specialties
Women And Development In The MENA
Foreign Capital Penetration And Changes In Social
Migration And The MENA
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
Croatian (fluent)
German (advanced)
Italian (intermediate)
Russian (intermediate)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2011
| Political Science
| University of Colorado at Boulder
MA
| 2006
| Political Science
| University of Colorado at Boulder
BA
| 2002
| Political Science, Economics
| Colorado College
Abstracts
Smart Economics: Exploring Quotas as a Tool for Women's Political Empowerment in the Arab World
Security in Numbers: Exploring the Relationship between Women’s Political Representation and Personal Security in the Middle East and North Africa
