Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, a Contributing Scholar in the Women’s Rights in the Middle East Program at Rice University, and an Affiliated Scholar in the Program on Governance and Local Development (GLD) at the University of Gothenburg and Yale University. She conducted surveys in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Jordan and contributes to the Transitional Governance Project. Her research has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Governance, and Foreign Affairs. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and served as a fellow at Yale University and Princeton University.