NW Univ. M/S 1801Q
2020 Ridge Avenue
Evanston
IL
60208
United States
ABOUT
Jocelyn Sage Mitchell is assistant professor in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar, teaching comparative and American politics and interdisciplinary courses. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Northwestern University's Middle East and North African Studies Program in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. Mitchell holds a BA in political science and Middle Eastern studies from Brown University and an MA and a PhD in government from Georgetown University.
Mitchell’s work focuses on oil and politics, state-society relations, and political tolerance in authoritarian contexts. Her current research project challenges common assumptions of the place of money and the nature of politics in resource-rich (“rentier”) authoritarian societies, using Qatar as her primary case study. She has a series of peer-reviewed publications based on this research, including in Political Research Quarterly and the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and she is in the final stages of her book manuscript. Her second research project is a comparative look at political tolerance in the Middle East.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Comparative
Development
Environment
Gender/Women's Studies
Gulf Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Pedagogy
Political Economy
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arabian Peninsula
Indian Ocean Region
Qatar
Specialties
Oil And Politics
State-society Relations
Political Tolerance In Authoritarian Contexts
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2013
| Government
| Georgetown University
MA
| 2008
| Government
| Georgetown University
BA
| 2003
| Political Science, Middle Eastern Studies
| Brown University
