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 July 2018.
My research explores political behavior in authoritarian contexts, religion and politics, and the origins of coercive institutions. I use a variety of survey, voting, archival, and interview evidence, and incorporate quantitative, qualitative, and experimental methodologies.
My book manuscript, tentatively titled The Psychology of Repression: Identity and Polarization in Authoritarian Regimes, 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, 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 July 2018.
My research explores political behavior in authoritarian contexts, religion and politics, and the origins of coercive institutions. I use a variety of survey, voting, archival, and interview evidence, and incorporate quantitative, qualitative, and experimental methodologies.
My book manuscript, tentatively titled The Psychology of Repression: Identity and Polarization in Authoritarian Regimes, 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, 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.