Pozen Visiting Professors

We regularly bring distinguished human rights scholars and practitioners to campus for one quarter to teach a seminar and offer a series of public lectures, thus advancing the Center’s goal of bringing the theory and practice of human rights into productive and creative conversation. This visiting professorship is made possible by a gift from Richard and Ann Pozen.

Jillian Schwedler

Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York

Dr. Schwedler’s research focuses on contentious politics and political geography, particularly concerning protests in urban and peri-urban settings. Her regional specialization is the Middle East, with special expertise in Jordan and Yemen. Her books include the award-winning Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (Cambridge 2006) and (with Laleh Khalili) Policing and Prisons in the Middle East (Columbia 2010). Her articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Middle East Policy, Middle East Report, Middle East Critique, Journal of Democracy, and Social Movement Studies, among many others. Her most recent books are the two-time award-winning Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent (Stanford University Press, 2022) and The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research since the Arab Uprisings, author and co-editor with Marc Lynch and Sean Yom (Oxford University Press, 2022).

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