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Mai Hassan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she her work examines topics that span across authoritarian regimes, bureaucracy and public administration, and contentious politics, with a particular focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

Before joining MIT, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan.

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Hassan was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, from to  

Mai Hassan is a distinguished scholar with numerous publications in leading academic journals and books.

Hassan's first book, Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya, garnered significant acclaim. It was named a Best Book of by Foreign Affairs, won the American Political Science Association’s Robert A.

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