Dr Maria Gloria Polimeno is Lecturer in International Relations and Politics at the University of York. She was Global Expert on Egypt and Tunisia in the ERC co-funded V-Dem project based at the University of Gothenburg and was a Global Expert on Egypt and Tunisia for the ERC funded DEMED Project led by the University of Glasgow, and a Middle East and North Africa Expert in the British Academy CITMODES-funded GLOBALCIT programme based at the European University Institute.
Before joining the University of York and the University of Cambridge, she held research and teaching positions at the University of Exeter, The Queen Mary University of London and SOAS' Department of Politics and International Studies.
She is an interdisciplinary scholar of the Middle East. Many of her interdisciplinary research interests have been shaped by living and researching in the region. Her works focus on comparative politics with a particular emphasis on the politics and economy of transformative authoritarianism, elite studies, political legitimacy, international political economy through the prism of environmental politics and international relations.
Her works have been published in Mediterranean Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Democratisation, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, International Affairs, and other venues.
She holds a PhD in Middle East Politics from the University of Exeter and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. She is a member of the Council for British Research in the Levant, European Consortium for Political Research and a UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab Expert.
