Shamiran Mako is an assistant professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Pardee School of Global Studies. She is jointly affiliated with the Political Science Department at BU. Her research focuses on the international relations and comparative politics of the Middle East with a substantive emphasis on ethnic politics, institutions and power-sharing, state-and peacebuilding, and institutions and governance in divided societies. She is the author of After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa, with Valentine Moghadam (Cambridge University Press, 2021). She is in the process of completing her manuscript on institutions, grievances and ethnic mobilization in Iraq titled Structuring Exclusion: the Institutional Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Iraq.
Research Interests: IR and comparative politics of the Middle East, ethnic politics, state and peace-building, institutions and governance in divided societies