Yael Zeira, Ph.D.

yzeira@olemiss.edu

University of Mississippi

Address: 227 Deupree Hall

City: University, Mississippi - 38677

Country: United States

About Me:

Yael Zeira is Croft Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Mississippi. Before joining the faculty at Mississippi, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. Zeira’s research examines the causes and consequences of public opinion and political behavior in authoritarian and conflict settings, including Palestine, Syria, and the United Arab Emirates. Her book, The Revolution Within: State Institutions and Unarmed Resistance in Palestine (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019), examines why some people participate in risky anti-regime resistance while others abstain using original survey, interview, and archival research in the Palestinian Territories. Her other research has been published in journals such as Comparative Political Studies and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. Zeira is a graduate of the Bridging the Gap Project’s International Policy Summer Institute and the Empirical Studies of Conflict Program. She obtained a B.A. with honors from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University.

Research Interests

Conflict Processes & War

Political Violence

Non-Democratic Regimes

Middle East & North African Politics

Public Opinion

Experimental Research

Countries of Interest

Palestinian Territories

Syria

United Arab Emirates