Nermin Allam

Nermin Allam is associate professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. Her research focuses on gender politics and social movements in the Middle East and North Africa.  She is the author of Women and the Egyptian Revolution: Engagement and Activism during the 2011 Arab Uprisings (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

At the Kellogg Institute, Allam will work on her new book project, “The Afterlife Goes On,” which examines how women’s participation in the 2011 Egyptian uprising has influenced their gender consciousness and feminist subjectivities in the afterlife of activism. The book shows that women’s encounters with gender-based violence in protests and exposures to new social and political networks influenced their personal and professional lives following their participation.

In addition to numerous chapters and entries, Allam’s work has appeared in Mobilization, Politics & Gender, PS: Political Science & Politics, Social Research: An International Quarterly, Middle East Law and Governance, and Sociology of Islam, among other journals. Her research has received funding from Social Science Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and International Development Research Center.

Allam sits on the board of the Arab Political Science Network and is currently the co-editor for the APSA-MENA newsletter, the newsletter for the Middle East section at the American Political Science Association.

Prior to joining Rutgers, Allam held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the University of Alberta, Canada.