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Department of Political Science
Hunter College
New York
NY
10065
United States
ABOUT
Jillian Schwedler is Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York, Hunter College and the Graduate Center. She is author of the award-winning Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (Cambridge 2006) and most recently editor (with Laleh Khalili) of Policing and Prisons in the Middle East (Columbia/Hurst 2010). Her articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Middle East Policy, Middle East Report, Journal of Democracy, and Social Movement Studies, among others. Dr. Schwedler is a member of the editorial committee and former chair of the board of directors (2002-2009) of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), publishers of Middle East Report. She has conducted research in Jordan, Yemen, and Egypt and has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East with support from the National Science Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, the Fulbright Scholars Program, and the Social Science Research Council, among others. Her work broadly engages questions of contentious politics, political geography, justice, policing, and political dissent. She is currently finishing a book examining political protests and policing in Jordan from 1946 to the present.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Comparative
Ethnography
Democratization
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Jordan
Yemen
Specialties
Comp Pol
Democ
Islamist Mvmts
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2000
| Pol Sci
| New York U
MA
| 1993
| Middle East Studies
| New York U
BA
| 1988
| Near East Languages and Literature
| New York U
Abstracts
The Repression-Dissent Nexus: Insights from Jordan
Neoliberal Exclusions in Cairo and Amman
Political Protests and the Prospects for Reform in Jordan
Rethinging Time and Space in the Arab Uprisings
Protests are Legal: Law and Public Dissent in Jordan
Protest Temporalities and the Meaning of Contention
The Genders of Political Protests—and Protesters—in Jordan
Questioning Hashemite Jordan: Spatial Dimensions of Protest in and against the Hashemite Kingdom
