Marwa Shalaby, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Shalaby’s work focuses on the intersection of the politics of authoritarianism, and women in politics. Her research also explicates the micro-dynamics and outcomes of electoral institutions under competitive authoritarianism, mainly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Shalaby’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Comparative Politics, Politics and Gender, PS: Political Science and Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Parliamentary Affairs, and the Middle East Journal, among many others. She has co-authored an edited volume, The Evolving Role of Women after the Arab Spring, with Valentine Moghadam (2016). Shalaby is currently working on a book manuscript on gender and authoritarian politics in MENA.