Samer Anabtawi


Major — Comparative Politics

Minor — Research Methods

Samer Anabtawi is a Ph.D. student at the George Washington University studying comparative politics and quantitative research methods. His primary research focuses on marginalized groups, social movements, gender rights activism and public attitudes toward marginalized groups in the Middle East and North Africa. He is currently working on other research projects on judicial autonomy under authoritarianism. Samer holds a Master of Arts degree in International Affairs from the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. in Politics and Economics in 2012 from Illinois College.


Marginalized groups, social movements, gender minority politics, the Middle East

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, M.A. Political Science, 2017

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, M.A., International Relations, 2013

ILLINOIS COLLEGE, B.S., Political Science, Economics, and French, 2012