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Dr. Killian Clarke is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. His research focuses on grassroots mobilization, revolutions, and democratization in the Middle East and North Africa. He is currently completing a book on counterrevolutions, analyzing Egypt's 2011 revolution and 2013 counterrevolution alongside a global dataset of counterrevolutionary events since 1900. Supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and Social Science Research Council, his work examines transformative political events and their consequences.
Education:
- PhD in Political Science, Princeton University
- MA in Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
- BA in Social Studies, Harvard University
Research Interests:
- Origins and outcomes of revolutions
- Counterrevolutionary dynamics
- Protest mobilization in authoritarian contexts
- Syrian refugee resistance networks
- Post-revolutionary state-building
- Comparative democratization processes
Recent Work Trends: His publications analyze revolutionary violence, authoritarian resilience, and protest legacies in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Sudan. Methodologically, he combines qualitative fieldwork (interviews in refugee camps) with quantitative datasets of revolutionary events. Current projects explore Gulf rentierism's role in post-2011 democratization failures and transnational protest solidarity mechanisms.
Awards/Fellowships:
- Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow (Harvard, 2020-21)
- NSF Grant (Counterrevolution Project)
- Mamdouha S. Bobst Center Research Support
Advising/Grants: While no advisees are listed, his research has received institutional support from Princeton IIRAS and the Weatherhead Scholars Program. He collaborates with regional scholars on protest tracking initiatives in the MENA region.
