Dr. Matt Buehler
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
University of Tennessee, Fall 2014 –
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Tennessee, Fall 2015 –
Baker Fellow, Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy
Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar, 2013 – 2014
Book-Writing Fellowship, Center for International and Regional Studies
Dr. Mehran Kamrava, director
EDUCATION
University of Texas at Austin, 2013
Ph.D., Government, Department of Government(magna cum laude)
Dr. Jason Brownlee, advisor
University of Texas at Austin, 2009
M.A. Government, Department of Government
Fields: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Middle Eastern Studies (certificate)
University of Damascus, Syria, 2007
Certificate of Advanced-High Proficiency in Arabic, Center for Teaching Arabic to Foreigners
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, 2006
B.A. Politicsand History (cum laude)
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
“Continuity through Co-optation: Rural Politics and Regime Resilience in Morocco and Mauritania.”Mediterranean Politics.(In press, 2015).
“Labor Demands, Regime Concessions: Moroccan Unions and the Arab Uprisings,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies42.1 (2015).
“The Threat to ‘Un-Moderate’: Moroccan Islamists and the Arab Spring,”Middle East Law and Governance 5:1 (2013).
“Safety-Valve Elections in the Arab Spring: The Weakening (and Resurgence) of Morocco’s Islamist Opposition Party,”Terrorism and Political Violence, 25:1 (2013).
Book Reviews:
Laleh Khalili and Jillian Schwedler, Policing and Prisons in the Middle East: Formations of Coercion, Terrorism and Political Violence (April 2015).
Lise Storm, Party Politics and the Prospects for Democratization in North Africa, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, (January 2015)
Lise Storm, Party Politics and the Prospects for Democratization in North Africa, Middle East Journal,(January 2014)
Research in Progress
Book manuscript: Why Alliances Fail: Opposition Alliances between Islamists and Leftists in North Africa. (Book workshop, 24 August 2015)
Having ‘Connections’ at the Courthouse: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on Perceptions of Wasta in Judicial Decision-making in Morocco. Working paper.
(Mis)managing Authoritarian Coalitions in Tunisia: Minister Survival from Colonial Independence to Democratic Revolution. (with Mehdi Ayari ben Khaddour). Working Paper.
Organizations and Political Violence in the Middle East. (with Brandon Prins). Grant Project.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Scholarly Research and Incentive Funds-Summer Graduate Research Assistanship Fund
- Tunisian archival research for doctoral student Mehdi Ayari
Project for Middle East Political Science, Dr. Marc Lynch, George Washington University, 2012
- Mauritania fieldwork
American Institute for Maghrib Studies, fellowship, Mauritania fieldwork, 2012
Carter Center, Elections Observer, 2011
- Monitorfor the 2011 Tunisian Constituent Assembly Elections
U.S. Institute of International Education, Boren Fellowship – Morocco & Tunisia fieldwork, 2010-2011
University of Texas, Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellow, 2009 - 2010
- Enrolled in doctoral-level Arabic literature, culture, and politics courses (Arabic-only)
U.S. Institute of International Education, intensive Arabic, Boren Scholar–Damascus, Syria, 2006 – 2007
SKILLS
Languages:
Modern Standard Arabic, Fluent - reading, writing, speaking
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, advanced-high certificate - 2007, 2009, & 2011
French, Intermediate – reading, speaking
Fieldwork in the Middle East:
Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania (November 2010 - March 2012, short trips 2013, 2014, & 2015)
Syria (August 2006 - October 2007) (Arabic study)
United Arab Emirates (May 2006 - August 2006) (Arabic study)
Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Turkey (travel)
Methods training:
Winter Experimental Social Sciences Institute, New York University, 2014
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, 2010
Syracuse University, New York
University of Texas Summer Statistics Institute, 2012
PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
“Having ‘Connections’ at the Courthouse: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on Perceptions of Wasta in Judicial Decision-making in Morocco,” Winter Experiments Institute in the Social Sciences, New York University-Princeton workshop, Florence, Italy, 2015. (invited).
“Having ‘Connections’ at the Courthouse: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on Perceptions of Wasta in Judicial Decision-making in Morocco,” Survey Based Population Experiments in the Middle East. Middle East Studies Association, Denver, (panel organizer).
“Having ‘Connections’ at the Courthouse: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on Perceptions of Wasta in Judicial Decision-making in Morocco,” Survey Based Population Experiments in the Middle East. 2015 American Political Science Association, San Francisco, (panel organizer).
“Continuity through Co-optation in Morocco and Mauritania,” Project on Middle East Political Science, May 2015.
“Book Introduction: Why Alliances Fail,” Middle East Studies Association, November, 2014.
“Co-optation of Morocco’s Socialist Party,” Southeastern Regional Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Seminar, February 2014.
“Co-optation of Morocco’s Socialist Party,” American Political Science Association Conference, August 2014.
“Continuity through Co-optation in Morocco and Mauritania,” Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University-Qatar, February 2014.
“Continuity through Co-optation in Morocco and Mauritania,”American Political Science Association Conference, September 2013.
“Elections in North Africa,” Project on Middle East Political Science, George Washington University, February 2013 (invited, panelist).
UNIVERSIYT SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES
At University of Tennessee
Member, Tennessee Initiative for Middle Eastern Studies committee – 2014-2015
In Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies
Member, American Institute for Maghrib Studies
Member, Middle Eastern Studies Association
Member, American Political Science Association
Peer-Reviewer:
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Journal of International Peace Studies
Middle East Journal
International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Terrorism and Political Violence
Middle East Law and Governance
Lynne-Rienner Publishers – Middle East Book Series
Teaching, University of Tennessee
Contemporary Middle East Politics, undergraduate, Fall 2014
Area Studies Seminar: Middle East Politics, graduate, Fall 2014
Personal
Boy Scouts of America – Eagle Scout Award, 2001
REFERENCES
Jason Brownlee, Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin
, 512-232-7304
Joshua Stacher, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Kent State University
330-672.2060
Clement Henry, ProfessorChair, Department of Political Science, American University of Cairo
Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin
Mehran Kamrava, Director and Professor, Center for International and Regional Studies, Edmund J. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University-Qatar.
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