Michael Marcusa is a sixth year Ph.D. candidate specializing in Comparative Politics. He holds a B.A with Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors in Government and Middle Eastern Studies from Dartmouth College and was awarded the Rockefeller Prize for the best senior honors thesis in the field of Comparative Politics. Michael’s research agenda seeks to study the complex inter-play between tangible state institutions and ideational variables like identity, ideology, and culture. He is undertaking these scholarly efforts with particular reference to political development issues in the Arab World. A proficient speaker and reader of Arabic, Michael has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa. Before coming to Brown, he spent seven months studying Arabic literary and social theoretic texts in Cairo, Egypt as a Dartmouth Paul L. and Neil T. McGorrian Fellow.
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