Wendy Pearlman

Wendy Pearlman
Born1974 (age 49–50)
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsNorthwestern University

Wendy R. Pearlman (born 1974)[1] is an American historian and political scientist of the Middle East. She is the Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University where she has taught since 2008.[2]

Education and career

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Pearlman graduated from Brown University magna cum laude in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in history. During her junior year at Brown, Pearlman studied abroad in Morocco, where she began studying Arabic.[3][4] In 1996 and 1997, Pearlman completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Madrid, where she researched North African migrant communities.[2]

Pearlman received a Master of Arts in government from Georgetown University before pursuing doctoral studies at Harvard University. She completed her Ph.D. in government from Harvard in 2007. She has taught at Northwestern University since 2008, where she held the Crown Junior Chairship in Middle East Studies (2009-15) and Crown Professorship of Middle East Studies (2022-24).[2]

Pearlman has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Perspectives on Politics since June 2023.

Personal life

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Pearlman was raised in the Chicago suburbs and Lincoln, Nebraska in "a non-religious, secular but Jewish household."[3][5] She attended Lincoln Southeast High School, graduating in 1992.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "LUX: Yale Collections Discovery". lux.collections.yale.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  2. ^ a b c "Curriculum Vitae of Wendy Pearlman" (PDF). December 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Dr. Wendy Pearlman". CulturallyOurs. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  4. ^ Pearlman, Wendy (2020-08-24), "22. ON FIELD-BEING", 22. ON FIELD-BEING, Columbia University Press, pp. 183–187, doi:10.7312/krau19300-024, ISBN 978-0-231-55010-9, retrieved 2024-10-24
  5. ^ Murphy, Maureen Clare (2004-02-06). "Interview: Wendy Pearlman, author of 'Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life from the Second Intifada'". The Electronic Intifada. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  6. ^ "Lincoln High hosts renowned author, LPS alum". www.lps.org. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
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