Ashley Anderson

Ashley Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Government from Harvard University, and a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University. Her postdoctoral fellowship was supported by the Carolina Post-Doctoral Program for Faculty Diversity.

Her research focuses on comparative politics, particularly contentious politics in authoritarian regimes, labor movements, and political institutions. She is currently working on a book project analyzing union responses to political movements in authoritarian contexts, emphasizing North African regimes' strategies of labor incorporation and their impacts on anti-regime contention. Additional research explores opposition dynamics and Islamist party success in authoritarian systems.

Awards include the Carolina Post-Doctoral Program for Faculty Diversity Fellowship. Her work bridges theoretical insights with empirical analysis of authoritarian governance and social mobilization.