Ameni Mehrez

Assistant Professor of Government

Office : Chancellors 357
Links : [[amehrez, Email]]
Office Hours: Monday, 3:30 pm-5:30 pm: in person, drop-in, no appointment needed
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Behavior, Middle East and North Africa

Background

Ameni Mehrez joined the Department of Government as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2025. Her work investigates the study of political behavior with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa region, where she is running large-scale surveys. Her work also examines the relationship between politics and religion. She has published in journals like Political Behavior, Religious Studies, and Mediterranean Politics. Her main areas of expertise are public opinion surveys, political attitudes, electoral behavior, and political ideologies in the Arab-Muslim World.

Currently, she serves as the co-principal investigator of the Arab Elections project, which aims to expand the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) dataset - one of the most extensive cross-regional repositories of electoral data, encompassing over 50 countries worldwide. She is also a member of the CSES Module 7 Planning Committee.

Ameni is a non-resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative program and a junior fellow at the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS). She was a visiting fellow at the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Central European University (CEU), a master’s in international relations from the University of Pécs in Hungary, and a BA in English Studies from the University of Carthage, Tunisia.

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