Department of Political Science
University of Tennessee
1001 McClung Tower
Knoxville
TN
37996
United States
ABOUT
Matt Buehler is an associate professor of political science and a global security fellow at the University of Tennessee’s Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy, where he researches contemporary politics of the Middle East and North Africa. He has held research fellowships at Harvard University’s Middle East Initiative at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Georgetown University’s Center for International and Regional Studies in Qatar. He serves as an editor at the journal Mediterranean Politics, and co-editor of the Edinburgh Series on the Maghreb book series with Edinburgh University Press. He is author of Why Alliances Fail: Opposition Coalitions between Islamists and Leftists in North Africa (Syracuse University Press, 2018). His book received the 2019 best book award from the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS), a regional MESA-affiliate. He was a recipient of a 2018 Early Career Excellence in Research and Creative Achievement Award from the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Tennessee.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Democratization
Maghreb Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Maghreb
Specialties
Islamist Politics
Democratization
Authoritarianism
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2013
| Government
| University of Texas at Austin
MA
| 2010
| Department of Government
| University of Texas at Austin
