Since June 2022, Meray Maddah is a PhD candidate at the Politics and Public Administration Department as well as the Graduate School of Behavioral Sciences (GSBS) at the University of Konstanz. She is also a doctoral researcher in the Working Group, “Legislatures in International Politics” lead by Dr. Thomas Malang. Additionally, she is a current Global Fellow at Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies.
Her research interests include the foreign influence of national legislators; statistical network analysis; Middle East and North African geopolitics and legislators; and consociational and identity-based politics in the MENA region as they relate to nation-building and trends of statehood transformations.
She graduated from the University of Siena where her MA thesis focused on the instrumentalization of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) in democratic transitions in the Post-Arab Spring era. Prior to her PhD studies, Maddah worked as a Research Assistant at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s MENA programme and a Project Manager at the Berghof Foundation in Lebanon.