Michele Penner Angrist is Associate Professor of Political Science at Union College in Schenectady, NY, where she teaches courses in international, comparative, and Middle East politics. She grew up primarily in North Africa and the Middle East and earned her PhD in Politics from Princeton University. Her research interests in general are democratization, regime change, and Middle East studies. She is author of Party Building in the Modern Middle East (University of Washington Press, 2006) and co‐editor of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Regimes and Resistance (Lynne Rienner Press, 2005). Her articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, the Journal of North African Studies, and Comparative Studies in Society and History.
