​Welcome! ​

I am an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University, where I also co-direct the Workshop on Arab Political Development. I was previously an assistant professor of political science at Yale University and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Middle East Initiative.

My research focuses on the politics of authoritarianism and religion in the Middle East. I'm currently working on a book about Egyptians exiled after the 2011 Arab Spring uprising. I investigate the experience of exile, activism in exile, and how exiles influence politics back home. 

My first book, After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition, was published by Princeton University Press. It received the Robert A. Dahl Award for scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy and an honorable mention for the Gregory Luebbert Book Award for the best book in the field of comparative politics from the American Political Science Association.

My CV is available here and you can reach me at enugent at princeton dot edu.