Stacher’s scholarship focuses on authoritarianism and social movements in the Middle East and North Africa. He is currently working on a book project on Egypt's political transition after Mubarak. In 2012-13, he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Stacher is the author of Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt & Syria (Stanford UP, 2012) as well as other peer-reviewed journal articles. He is a regular contributor to and on the editorial board of MERIP's Middle East Report. Stacher has made media appearances and written commentary for NPR, CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera, Foreign Affairs, Jadaliyya, and The New York Times, among others. He is also a founding member of the Northeast Ohio Consortium on Middle East Studies.