Hannah Early Bagdanov

Hannah Early Bagdanov is a PhD candidate in Political Science and a Dissertation Year Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Her research and teaching focus broadly on conflict, political behavior, state and non-state governance in the Middle East and North Africa. Her book project examines the political behavior of civilians in contexts of conflict with particular attention to how Palestinians in East Jerusalem engage with the state in seeking public goods and social services. In addition to extensive time spent in Israel/Palestine, Egypt, and Turkey for teaching and language study, she has conducted 14 months of field research in Israel/Palestine. Her published work appears in the American Political Science Review and Religion, State and Society, and her public-facing scholarship appears in Good Authority and the Governance and Local Development Institute’s Governance Uncovered podcast. Hannah’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation/The American Political Science Foundation’s DDRIG award, the Program on Governance and Local Development at the University of Gothenburg, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Liu Center for Asia and Asian Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Liberal Arts, the Klau Center for Civil & Human Rights, and the Notre Dame International Security Center.