Wendy Pearlman
Assistant Professor
PhD, Harvard University
Wendy Pearlman is the Crown Junior Chair in Middle East Studies. She specializes in the comparative politics of the Middle East, with a particular interest in political dynamics in weak states and nonstate entities. Her past work has focused on conflict processes, social movements, and the theory and practice of nationalism. She is currently revising a book manuscript that examines nearly 100 years in the history of the Palestinian national movement as an exploration of how a self-determination movement's internal cohesion or fragmentation affects its strategy. Her new research turns to Lebanon and other Levant societies to evaluate how emigration affects patterns of politics in the countries that migrants leave behind. Wendy has studied or conducted research in Spain, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She has held fellowships sponsored by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the U.S. Institute of Peace. She is the author of "Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada" (Nation Books, 2003).