Sharan Grewal

Sharan Grewal is a Professor at the College of William & Mary and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He holds a PhD and MA in Politics from Princeton University and a Certificate in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. His research focuses on democratization, military politics, and political Islam in the Middle East and North Africa, with recent work examining religious infrastructure and electoral victory, gender quotas in autocracies, and the legacy of violence on Algeria’s Hirak protests. His publications appear in the American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Peace Research. He has collaborated with scholars at Yale, Harvard, Leiden, and Bocconi Universities and received a $234,000 grant for research on Islamic pluralism.