Scott Weiner specializes in comparative politics with a focus on ethnic politics, gender, and identity politics in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author of Kinship, State Formation, and Governance in the Arab Gulf States (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) which examines the interaction of tribes and governments during state building in Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman. His current book project analyzes the gap between feminist theory and empirically-driven social science related to patriarchy and gender politics. He has published academic work in the International Feminist Journal of Politics and Political Studies Review, and has published policy writing with the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, Washington Post, Lawfare, Carnegie Endowment, The New Arab, Small Wars Journal, and Diplomatic Courier. From 2013-14, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the American University of Kuwait as the recipient of a David L. Boren Fellowship. Having completed his Ph.D at George Washington University in 2016, he teaches courses on the Middle East and North Africa, human rights, and gender politics. He conducts research in Arabic, French, and Persian.