Erridah, Tunisia
Welcome! I received my doctorate in politics from Princeton University with a specialization in comparative politics and a focus on the Middle East in June 2017. During AY2017-2018, I will be a postdoctoral research fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. I will join Yale's political science faculty as an assistant professor in fall 2018.
My research interests include political behavior in authoritarian contexts; religion and politics; public opinion in the Muslim and Arab worlds; and survey and experimental methodologies. My work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Political Science Research and Methods.
My dissertation develops and tests an original theory of state repression and its effects on processes of polarization in authoritarian contexts. The project employs a mixed methods approach, including lab experimental tests of the theory’s micro-foundational psychological mechanism and case studies of repression and polarization in Egypt and Tunisia based on in-depth fieldwork in both countries.
I served as an AY2007-2008 Fulbright Fellow in Cairo, Egypt and have conducted fieldwork for a variety of projects in Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia, Uganda, and the United Arab Emirates. I hold a B.A. in Arabic and an M.A. in Arab Studies, both from Georgetown University.
On this website, you will find links to my CV, publications, working papers, and non-academic writing. Please do not hesitate to contact me at Elizabeth_Nugent@hks.harvard.edu with any questions or to request copies of my work.
Welcome! I received my doctorate in politics from Princeton University with a specialization in comparative politics and a focus on the Middle East in June 2017. During AY2017-2018, I will be a postdoctoral research fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. I will join Yale's political science faculty as an assistant professor in fall 2018.
My research interests include political behavior in authoritarian contexts; religion and politics; public opinion in the Muslim and Arab worlds; and survey and experimental methodologies. My work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Political Science Research and Methods.
My dissertation develops and tests an original theory of state repression and its effects on processes of polarization in authoritarian contexts. The project employs a mixed methods approach, including lab experimental tests of the theory’s micro-foundational psychological mechanism and case studies of repression and polarization in Egypt and Tunisia based on in-depth fieldwork in both countries.
I served as an AY2007-2008 Fulbright Fellow in Cairo, Egypt and have conducted fieldwork for a variety of projects in Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia, Uganda, and the United Arab Emirates. I hold a B.A. in Arabic and an M.A. in Arab Studies, both from Georgetown University.
On this website, you will find links to my CV, publications, working papers, and non-academic writing. Please do not hesitate to contact me at Elizabeth_Nugent@hks.harvard.edu with any questions or to request copies of my work.
