Ameni Mehrez is an Assistant Professor at the Government Department of William and Mary. She 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) and a master’s in international relations from the University of Pécs.
Ameni’s 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.
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 currently a member of the CSES Module 7 Planning Committee.
Her main areas of expertise are public opinion surveys, political attitudes, electoral behavior, and political ideologies in the Arab-Muslim World.
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