Mark Tessler, University of Michigan.

Mark Tessler is the Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He has studied and/or conducted field research in Tunisia, Israel, Morocco, Egypt, Palestine (West Bank and Gaza), and Qatar. Professor Tessler is the co-founder and co-director of the Arab Barometer survey project, and many of his publications are data-based studies of the attitudes and values held by ordinary citizens in the Middle East. Among the sixteen books he has authored, co-authored, or edited are Public Opinion in the Middle East: Survey Research and the Political Orientations of Ordinary Citizens (2011); Islam and Politics in the Middle East: Explaining the Views of Ordinary Citizens (2015); Religious Minorities in Non-Secular Middle Eastern and North African States (2020); and Social Science Research in the Arab World and Beyond: A Guide for Students, Instructors, and Researchers (2023). Professor Tessler has also written extensively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.