Biographical Information
Amaney Jamal is Associate Professor of Politics at Princeton
University, and she currently directs the Workshop on Arab Political
Development. Jamal's current
research focuses on democratization and the politics of civic
engagement in the Arab World. She extends her research to the study of
Muslim and Arab Americans, examining the pathways that structure their
patterns of civic engagement in the US. Jamal has written four books. Her first book, Barriers
to Democracy, which won the Best Book Award in Comparative
Democratization at the American Political Science Association (2008),
explores the role of civic associations in promoting democratic effects
in the Arab World. Her second book, an edited volume with Nadine Naber
(University of Michigan), looks at the patterns and influences of Arab
American racialization processes. She is revising a third book on
patterns of citizenship in the Arab world, tentatively
entitled Of
Empires and Citizens: Authoritarian Durability in the Arab World
(under contract with Princeton University Press). Jamal is also a
co-author on the book, Citizenship
and Crisis: Arab Detroit after 9-11. Finally, Jamal is working on a new single-authored book project entitled Living Poverty: The Urban and Rural Poor in Comparative Development. Jamal is a principal
investigator of the "Arab Barometer Project,"
winner of
the Best Dataset in the
field of Comparative Politics: Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award
(2010); co-PI of the "Detroit Arab American
Study," a sister survey to the Detroit Area Study; and Senior Advisor
on the Pew Research Center Projects focusing on Islam in America (2006)
and Global Islam, (2010). In 2005, Jamal was named a Carnegie Scholar.