Jeannie L. Sowers is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director for the International Affairs Program at the University of New Hampshire. Her publications focus on political economy, ecology, and state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa. In addition to her work with Bruce Rutherford on Modern Egypt: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2018), her books include Environmental Politics in Egypt: Experts, Activists, and the State (Routledge, 2013), and The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest, and Social Change in Egypt (co-edited with Chris Toensing, Verso, 2012). She holds a BA from Harvard University and an MA and PhD from Princeton University, and has held postdoctoral appointments at Harvard University and Oxford University. Her research has been funded by grants from Princeton University, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the University of New Hampshire, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation. She serves on editorial board of Global Environmental Politics and is a contributor and former editorial board member for Middle East Report.
Bruce K. Rutherford is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University. He received a PhD in political science from Yale University. He also holds an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has held visiting research fellowships at Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Princeton University. His research has been supported by fellowships from the American Research Center in Egypt, the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. He is the author of Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World (Princeton, 2008) and co-author, with Jeannie L. Sowers, of Modern Egypt: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2018). His work on Egypt has appeared in The Middle East Journal as well as the following edited volumes: Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft (Syracuse University Press, 2013); Constitutionalism, the Rule of Law, and the Politics of Administration in Egypt and Iran(SUNY Press, 2013); The Arab Spring: Change and Resistance in the Middle East (Westview Press, 2012); and Democratic Community (New York University Press, 1993).
