Jeannie L Sowers

Visiting Scholar
Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science and International Affairs, University of New Hampshire
Jeannie Sowers
jeannie.sowers@unh.edu
University of New Hampshire

Jeannie Sowers is Professor and Chair of the Political Science and International Affairs Department at the University of New Hampshire. Her research explores political and environmental change in the Middle East and North Africa, with a recent focus on protracted conflict and humanitarian practice. Her books include Environmental Politics in Egypt: Experts, Activists, and the State (Routledge, 2012), Modern Egypt: What Everyone Needs to Know with Bruce Rutherford (Oxford University Press, 2019), the co-edited volume Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest, and Social Change in Egypt (Verso, 2012), the co-edited Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics (2023), and a number of articles and book chapters. She is a non-resident Foreign Policy fellow at the Brookings Institution and serves on the editorial board of Global Environmental Politics.