Elizabeth Nugent
Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton | Politics of Authoritarianism + Religion in the Middle East | www.elizabethnugent.com
- Read Yanilda Gonzalez on why this comparison makes sense: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
- Reposted by Elizabeth NugentEach semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
- Reposted by Elizabeth NugentFrom October 2025 - The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination - cup.org/3WCwC5v - Nourhan A. Elsayed, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, @riazsascha.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social #OpenAccess
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- 🧵 on my paper, ‘System Justification in Authoritarian Regimes’ (recently accepted at @thejop.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Elizabeth NugentLabels can impact politics. My paper @apsrjournal.bsky.social "What Happens When You Can't Check the Box?" shows when Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans are excluded from identity categories, they assert MENA identity when answering relevant political questions. doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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- Tried to explain this to a senior colleague recently, who suggested I was overreacting - thanks to @abuaardvark.bsky.social for saying it more clearly and eloquently
- What it’s like to be a Middle East Studies Professor in fall 2025 - my new post surveys the field, and my colleagues. Basically it sucks and it’s getting worse. But we haven’t given up. abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/what-its-lik...
- I really want to believe that American public opinion still matters. It makes me feel better that most Americans don’t support these policies. But other non-democracies demonstrate that once institutions have been politically weaponized, public opinion matters significantly less.
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- Reposted by Elizabeth NugentThe Niehaus Center at Princeton is hiring a Research Specialist. We hope to hire someone to start this summer. Information here: main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/20778/r...
- Per usual, @roxanegay.bsky.social saying what I’m thinking
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- Still buzzing from last night’s Workshop on Arab Political Development talk by @dbgreenwald.bsky.social! Such important work, done so well, about local governance in occupied Palestine. cup.columbia.edu/book/mayors-...
- We've got page numbers: "Remembering the Counterrevolution: Disappointment, Denial, and Demobilization" with Michael Hoffman, drawing on evidence from Egypt. doi.org/10.1080/1351...
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