Dr. Miaad Hassan
Assistant Professor of International Relations and Middle East Politics
Bio
Miaad Hassan specializes in comparative politics and international relations, having received a PhD in comparative politics from the University of Florida. Her research delves into critical areas of politics such as state-building, party systems, authoritarian politics, identity politics, contentious politics, ethnicity, nationalism, and democratization. Dr. Hassan has held significant academic positions, serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Government and Law, Lafayette College, and the American University in Kurdistan, Iraq. She has taught courses including, Democratization and Democratic Breakdown, Post-Cold War Political Regimes, Comparative Public Policy, and Middle East Politics. Beyond academia, Dr. Hassan has extensive experience in both governmental and non-governmental spheres. Her contributions at the United Nations and the Research Triangle Institute (RTI International), particularly in the USAID Local Governance Program, highlight her commitment to applying her research to contemporary political contexts.
Education
PhD Political Science, University of Florida, 2021
M.A. Political Science, University of Florida, 2018
M.A. International Political Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, California, 2009
Professional Experience
2023-2024- Assistant Professor of International Relations and Middle East Politics
The United States Air Force Academy, Department of Political Science
2022-2023- Assistant Professor
The American University of Kurdistan, Department of International Studies
2021-2022- Visiting Assistant Professor
Lafayette College, Department of Government and Law
Honors & Awards
Foreign Language Area Studies, FLAS, 2016-2018
Fulbright Fellowship, University of Iowa, USA, 2005-2006
Fulbright Award 2019-2010 Semi-finalist
Barbara Roth Memorial Award, 2020
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Works
“Ethnic Politics in Minority Dominant Regimes: Three Cases from the Contemporary Middle East,” Ethnic Studies Review, 2020.
“Secular Authoritarian Regimes and Their Islamist Rivals in The Middle East and North Africa: Emerging Trends in Turkey’s Party System,” Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, 2023.
Books
Identities, Nationalism, and the State: The Politics of Ethnicity and Minority Regimes in the Middle East. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
Revolutionary Authoritarian Regimes, Their Parties, And Challengers: A Comparative Analysis of Party Systems and Regime Trajectories in The Middle East and North Africa. Routledge, (Forthcoming, 2024).
Book Reviews
Review of Quicksilver War: Syria, Iraq, and the Spiral of Conflict, by William Harris (Oxford University Press, 2018), Association for the Study of the Middle Est and North Africa (May 2020).