Amaney Jamal
Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and Professor of Politics and International Affairs
Amaney A. Jamal, dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, is the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics at Princeton. She directs the Workshop on Arab Political Development and the Bobst-American University of Beirut Collaborative Initiative.
Dr. Jamal’s scholarship covers the Middle East and North Africa, mass and political behavior, political development and democratization, inequality and economic segregation, Muslim immigration, gender, race, religion and class. Her book “Barriers to Democracy,” which explores the role of civic associations in promoting democratic effects in the Arab world, won the 2008 Best Book Award in Comparative Democratization at the American Political Science Association. She is an author or editor of three other books and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
Dr. Jamal earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California-Los Angeles. She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2006 and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.