Email: Melani_Cammett@brown.edu

Tel: +1-401-863-1570 (office)

Melani Cammett is associate professor of political science and director of the Middle East studies program at Brown University. She specializes in the political economy of development and the Middle East. Cammett's current book project, entitled In the Service of Sectarianism: Welfare and Politics in Weak States, focuses on how ethnic and religious parties allocate welfare goods. Her first book, Globalization and Business Politics in North Africa: A Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2007), examines how integration in global manufacturing chains reshapes business politics in developing countries.