Adria Lawrence

Assistant Professor Political Science
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115 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511

Adria Lawrence is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Area Studies. She is a scholar of conflict in the Middle East and North Africa, studying how people come to mobilize in favor of ideologies such as ethnicity, nationalism, religion, and democracy. Her book, Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2013), provides an account of how and why nationalist mobilization against colonial rule erupted in the 20th century French Empire. Her work has also addressed protest during the Arab Spring, and the switch from non-violent to violent contentious action.  She teaches seminars on “Middle East Exceptionalism” and qualitative field research.