Occupation
Independent Scholar/Researcher
Contact
Secondary Phone: 202-885-1640
The Arab Gulf States Institute
1050 Connecticut Ave, NW
Suite 1060
Washington
DC
20036
United States
ABOUT
Kristin Smith Diwan is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Her current projects concern generational change, nationalism, and the evolution of Islamism in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Her analysis of Gulf affairs has appeared in academic and policy journals such as International Politics, Mediterranean Politics, and Foreign Affairs, and she is oft cited in media such as the Financial Times, Washington Post, and New York Times.
Diwan was previously an assistant professor at the American University School of International Service and has held visiting scholar positions at the George Washington University and Georgetown University. From 2013-14 she served as a visiting senior fellow at the Atlantic Council where she published on youth movements and participated in the Strategic Dialogue for a New US-Gulf Partnership.
Diwan received her PhD from Harvard University and holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She completed her undergraduate degree at Baylor University in Texas, her home state.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Comparative
Gulf Studies
Islamic Studies
Nationalism
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Specialties
Globalization & Cult
Gulf Pol
Islamic Pol
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2006
| Government
| Harvard University
MA
| 1993
| SAIS
| Johns Hopkins U
Abstracts
Gerrymandering Citizenship: Political Participation and Political Polarization in the Arab Gulf States
A House Divided: Political Factionalism in the (quasi) Parliamentary Monarchies of Kuwait and Bahrain
Transnational Clerical Associations in Qatar and the UAE
Re-Thinking Diriyah: Entertainment and Heritage in the new Saudi Nationalism
Saudi Arabia's State Populism
