Melani Cammett is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Government Department and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Cammett’s books include The Oxford Handbook on Politics in Muslim Societies (co-edited with Pauline Jones, Oxford University Press, 2021), Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon (Cornell University Press 2014), which won the American Political Science Association (APSA) Giovanni Sartori Book Award and the Honorable Mention for the APSA Gregory Luebbert Book Award; A Political Economy of the Middle East (co-authored with Ishac Diwan, Alan Richards, and John Waterbury, 2015); The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare in the Global South (co-edited with Lauren Morris MacLean, Cornell University Press 2014), which received the Honorable Mention for the ARNOVA book award; and Globalization and Business Politics in North Africa (Cambridge University Press 2007). Her research explores identity politics, conflict, and development in the Middle East and other contexts. She is currently working on a book project that explores how people live together after violence, focusing on Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lebanon, and Northern Ireland.
Contact
617/495-9849
mcammett@g.harvard.edu
My Website
1737 Cambridge Street
CGIS Knafel Building, Room 213
Subfields
Comparative Politics
Academic Interests
Migration | Non-Governmental Organizations | Political Economy & Development | Religion in Politics | Security Studies | Social Policy & the Welfare State
Research Methods
Experiments | Historical Methods | Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods | Surveys
Geographic Regions of Study
Asia | Europe | Middle East and North Africa