Faculty

Teaching areas

Comparative Politics, International Relations, MENA Politics, Intro to Politics, Qualitative Methods. Recent Courses Taught: Introduction to Political Studies, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, International Relations, Spring 2020, Politics and Civil Society in the Middle East, Fall 2019<br><br><br>

Research areas

The impact of constitutional reforms, parliamentary elections, and repression on protest levels in Morocco. Contentious politics within the Middle East and North Africa.

Education

PhD, Political Science, University of Kansas

MA, Political Science, University of Hawaii

BA, Political Science & Spanish Studies, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Professional experience

Visiting Assistant Professor at Saint Martin’s University, United States(2018 - 2019)

Instructor / Graduate Teaching Assistant at Univeristy of Kansas, United States(2014 - 2018)

Contact

[email protected]

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Dr. Sammy Badran

Assistant Professor

PhD, Political Science, University of Kansas

Sammy Z. Badran previously taught political science courses at the University of Kansas and Saint Martin's University. He has offered introductory courses in Comparative Politics and International Relations along with upper division courses surrounding Contentious Politics, MENA Politics, and Non-State Actors, among others. His current research project investigates the impact of constitutional reforms, repression, parliamentary elections, and ideological cleavages on protest levels in Morocco. He has conducted over 45 semi-structured interviews with activists and civil society organizations/political parties that participated in the February 20 Movement.

Publications

Sammy Badran, Demobilizing the February 20 Movement in Morocco: Regime Strategies During the Arab Spring, Published, The Journal of North African Studies, 2019

Sammy Badran, Signaling Reforms Through Election Results: How a Moroccan Opposition Party Demobilized Protests, Published, The British Journal of Middle East Studies, 2019

Sammy Badran, Brian Turnbull, Contemporary Temporary Marriage in the MENA Region: A Blog Analysis of First-Hand Experiences, Published, The Journal of International Women’s Studies, 2019

Sammy Badran, Donald Haider-Markel, Mark Joslyn, Ranya Ahmed, Looters or Political Protestors? Attributions for Civil Unrest in American Cities, Published, Social Science Research, 2018

Sammy Badran, The Contentious Roots of the Egyptian Revolution, Published, Globalizations, 2014

Sammy Badran, Politics = Truth: Badiou’s The Rebirth of History, Published, Theory and Event, 2013

Sammy Badran, Ambivalent War Machines of the West African Landscape: Hoffman’s The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Published, Theory and Event, 2012

Conference Presentations

Sammy Badran, Social Movement Structure and Coalitions: The Tactical Standstill and Decline of a Moroccan Social Movement, Southern Political Science Association Conference, San Jaun, Puerto Rico, United States, January, 2020

Sammy Badran, Reforms, Repression, and Protest in Morocco: The Case of the February 20 Movement, Arab Graduate Student Conference, 2018

Sammy Badran, The 2011 Parliamentary Elections and Protest Demobilization in Morocco, American Political Science Association Conference, 2018

Sammy Badran, Ideological Cleavages and Alliances within the February 20 Movement, Twenty-Fourth Annual Moroccan Studies Symposium, 2017

Sammy Badran, Illicit Networks: Preventing and Combating Trafficking, Fulbright Alumni Participant in U.S. Department of State Alumni Thematic International Exchange Seminar , 2017

Sammy Badran, The 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections from a Moroccan Perspective, Al Akhawayn University Alumni Association: The 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections from a Moroccan Perspective, 2016

Sammy Badran, The Influence of Western Feminism on Contemporary Moroccan Feminist Organizations, Midwest Political Science Association Conference , 2016

Sammy Badran, Temporary Marriage: A New Guise for Human Trafficking, Southwestern Political Science Association Conference, 2015

Sammy Badran, The Contentious Roots of the Egyptian Revolution, Midwest Political Science Association Conference , 2013

Grants and sponsorships

E. Jackson Baur Award for Research and Study of Social Conflict and Conflict Resolution, University of Kansas Sociology Department

Fulbright Student Research Fellowship, 2017

Walter Thompson Research Award, University of Kansas, Dept. of Political Science

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship , Kansas African Studies Center , 2015

Awards and Honors

Received, Fulbright Student Research Fellowship, Morocco, Academic Year 2016 – 2017 , Fulbright Fellowship, 2016

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