Nermin Allam is a nonresident fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is an associate professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark and a 2024-2025 visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Allam’s research focuses on gender politics and social movements in the Middle East and North Africa. She is the author of Women and the Egyptian Revolution: Engagement and Activism during the 2011 Arab Uprisings (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

In addition to numerous chapters and entries, Allam’s work has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Mobilization, Politics & Gender, PS: Political Science & Politics, Social Research: An International Quarterly, Middle East Law and Governance, and Sociology of Islam, among other journals.

She has published pieces on gender politics in the Middle East at the Washington Post, the Conversation, and Inside Higher ED. Her research has received funding from Social Science Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and International Development Research Center.

Allam sits on the board of the Arab Political Science Network and is currently at-large officer for the American Political Science Association, Middle East section.

Prior to joining Rutgers, Allam held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University. She holds a doctor of philosophy in International Relations and Comparative Politics from the University of Alberta, Canada.