Dr. Nermin Allam

GRM 2018 Workshop: Gulf Cooperation Council Culture and Identities in the New Millennium: Resilience, Transformation, (Re)Creation and Diffusion

Assistant Professor - Department of Politics, Rutgers-Newark University

Dr. Nermin Allam is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Rutgers University-Newark, United States. Allam holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the University of Alberta. She has held a Social Science and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow and visiting scholar at Princeton University. Her fieldwork and doctoral research are funded by the International Development Research Centre, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Allam's areas of research interest include: social movements; gender politics; democratic transition; Middle Eastern and North African studies; and political Islam. Her contributions appeared at the Oxford Encyclopaedia on Islam and Politics, Oxford Encyclopaedia on Women's and Politics, International Journal of Communication, and Sociology of Islam. Allam's current book, "Women and the Egyptian Revolution: Engagement and Activism during the 2011 Arab Uprisings" is under contract with Cambridge University Press.