ALEXANDRA DOMIKE BLACKMAN

Contact Stanford University email: [email protected] Information Department of Political Science web: www.alexandrablackman.com 616 Serra Mall, Encina Hall West Stanford, CA 94305

Education Stanford University, Stanford, CA Ph.D. Political Science Expected: 2019

The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Full-year Fellow, Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) 2010-2011

Tufts University, Medford, MA B.A. International Relations (Minor in Arabic) 2010 Honors: Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Dissertation The Politicization of Faith: Colonialism, education, and political identity in Tunisia Project Abstract: My dissertation examines two main questions: How did French colonial rule transform the religious endowment (waqf) and educational systems in Tunisia? What impact did state control over these local institutions have on political mobilization in the run-up to independence? I explore how French colonization created demand for new French educational institutions and undermined the existing waqf-based education system. The transformation of these local institutions had important implications for the later appearance of local secular-nationalist or Islamic-nationalist mobilization around the moment of independence. The variation in local political identities persisted into the post- independence period, creating the social bases of the main nationalist party (the Neo-Destour and later the Socialist Destourian Party), and helps explain contemporary partisanship in post-revolutionary Tunisia. Committee: Lisa Blaydes (co-chair), Anna Grzymala-Busse, Kenneth Scheve (co-chair)

Peer-Reviewed 2018. “Religion and Foreign Aid.” Politics & Religion 11: 522-552. Publications 2018. “Voting in Transition: Evidence from Egypt’s 2012 Presidential Election.” Middle East Law & Governance 10(1): 25-58. (with Caroline Abadeer and Scott Williamson).

Working “Gender and Political Representation in Tunisia.” July 2018 (with Marlette Jackson). Under review. Papers “Violence in Transition: How Egypt’s Post-Revolution Crime Wave Increased Support for the Ancien R´egime.”August 2018 (with Caroline Abadeer, Lisa Blaydes, and Scott Williamson).

“Unintended Consequences: Resources, Gulf Migration, and Attitudinal Shifts.” January 2017 (with Kerry Persen).

Work in “The Prospects for Drug Decriminalization and Criminal Justice Reform in Tunisia.” (with Christopher Progress Lewis and Farah Samti).

“Party Elites and Gender Quotas: Strategic Behavior in the 2018 Tunisian Elections.” (with Aytug Sasmaz and Julia Clark).

Other “Prison reform and drug decriminalization in Tunisia.” The Project on Middle East Political Science Publications (POMEPS) workshop on Social Policy, forthcoming.

“One third of municipal councilors in Tunisia are from independent lists. How independent are they?” Democracy International (with Julia Clark and Aytug Sasmaz), July 2018.

“Generational divide in Tunisia’s 2018 municipal elections: Are youth candidates different?” Democracy International (with Julia Clark and Aytug Sasmaz), July 2018.

1 “List fillers or future leaders? Female candidates in Tunisia’s 2018 municipal elections.” Democracy International (with Julia Clark and Aytug Sasmaz), July 2018.

“Introducing the Tunisian local election candidate survey (LECS): A new approach to studying local governance.” Democracy International (with Julia Clark and Aytug Sasmaz), July 2018.

Fellowships Pre-doctoral Fellow, Stanford Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law 2018-2019 Dissertation Fellow, Global Religion Research Initiative, University of Notre Dame 2018-2019 Research Fellow, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society 2017-2018 Robert & Lisa Bertelson Graduate Fellow, Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship 2015-2018 Graduate Fellow, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation 2013-2015 Junior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2011-2012 Kathryn Wasserman Davis Fellow, Middlebury College Arabic Language School 2007

Grants Democracy International & U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative. ($45,000) 2018 & Awards (with Aytug Sasmaz and Julia Clark) Stanford Conflict and Polarization Initiative ($10,000) 2018 (with Aala Abdelgadir) Freeman Spogli Institute Research Grant. ($5,000) 2018 Stanford Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. ($7,000 total) 2015; 2018 Stanford Diversity Dissertation Research Opportunity Grant. ($1,000) 2017 Freeman Spogli Institute Global Policy Fellows Small Research Grant. ($2,800 total) 2017 (with Marlette Jackson) American Institute for Maghrib Studies Research Grant. ($3,000) 2017 Stanford Philanthropy and Civil Society Research Grant. ($5,500 total) 2014; 2016 (with Marlette Jackson, 2016) (with Jonathan Chu, Lily Lamboy, and Glory Liu, 2014) Stanford Graduate Research Opportunities Grant. ($4,000) 2016 Goldsmith Research Award. ($6,250 total) 2014; 2015 Stanford Europe Center. ($4,000) 2015 Project on Middle East Political Science TRE Grant. ($3,000) 2015 “Urban Beyond Measure” Research Grant. ($9,500 total) 2014; 2015 (with Lisa Blaydes, Caroline Abadeer, and Scott Williamson, 2015) (with Lisa Blaydes, 2014)

Teaching Stanford University Experience TA, Governing the Global Economy (Professor Ken Scheve). Winter 2018 TA, Iran, Islam, and the West (Professor Abbas Milani). Spring 2015 TA, Governing the Global Economy (Professor Ken Scheve). Winter 2015 TA, Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (Professors Fall 2013 Larry Diamond and Kathryn Stoner)

Patten University at San Quentin Prison (Prison University Project) Co-Instructor, American Government. Spring 2018

Tufts University TA, Western Political Thought II (Professor Robert Devigne). Spring 2010 TA, Intensive Second Year Arabic (Professor Valerie Anishchenkova). Summer 2008

Conference & American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting 2017; 2018 Workshop Middle East Studies Association, Annual Meeting 2017 Presentations Project on Middle East Political Science Workshop on Social Policy 2018 Stanford Philanthropy and Civil Society Workshop 2018 WESSI-NYU Florence Conference 2017 Centre d’Etudes Maghr´ebines`aTunis presentation 2017 Stanford-Berkeley Political Economy Workshop 2015; 2017 Project on Middle East Political Science, Annual Conference 2017

2 New Directions in Political Economy Workshop, Stanford 2016 APSA-MENA Workshop 2015 Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Society Graduate Workshop 2015 Stanford Law School 2015 Stanford Network Forum 2014 Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation Workshop 2014

Professional Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Experience Junior Fellow, Democracy and Middle East Programs August 2011 - July 2012

The Carter Center Short-term Election Observer, Tunisia November-December 2014 Field Office Assistant, Egypt June-July 2011 and May-June 2012 Democracy Program Intern, Atlanta, GA May-July 2009

Service Referee: Political Communication, Politics & Religion.

Languages Research Methods & Specialized Institute on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Syracuse University. 2015 Training Introduction to the Economics of Religion Graduate Workshop, Chapman University. 2016

Languages German (Fluent) Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian, Levantine, and Tunisian colloquial) (Advanced) French (Advanced)

Language Training French Language School, Middlebury College 2016 Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), American University in Cairo 2010-2011 Middlebury College at Alexandria University (Egypt) 2008 Arabic Language Program, Institut Fran¸caisdu Proche-Orient (Syria) 2008 Arabic Language School, Middlebury College 2007

Relevant Egypt (2012, 2014) Fieldwork France (2015, 2016, 2017) Tunisia (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)

References Lisa Blaydes email: [email protected] Associate Professor phone: 650-723-0649 Department of Political Science Stanford University

Anna Grzymala-Busse email: [email protected] Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor phone: 650-723-4270 of International Studies Department of Political Science Stanford University

Kenneth Scheve email: [email protected] Professor of Political Science phone: 650-497-9790 Department of Political Science Stanford University

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