Research Interests
Local governance & decentralization, formal institutions, social movements, Middle East & North Africa.
Biography
Jérémie Langlois is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a CASA II Fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Amman, Jordan. His work examines the evolution of institutions and governance in responses to mass mobilization and other regime crises, with a focus on North Africa.
He received his M.A. from Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and has spent over four years living, working, and studying in various parts of the Middle East and North Africa.
Publications
Langlois, Jérémie. 2022. “When reorganizing coercion backfires: explaining the mechanisms of revolt in Sudan and Algeria.” Democratization 29 (7): 1310-1331. DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2022.2049765. [Manuscript pdf.]
Langlois, Jérémie and Marwa Daoudy. 2022. “Words, Water, and Waste: How Government Discourse Shapes Environmental Protest in Lebanon and Jordan.” in Environmental Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS).
Awards
Travel, Research, and Engagement Grant, POMEPS (2023)
Summer Research Collaborative Program Award, Rapoport Family Foundation (2023)
Frank Cass Prize: Best 2022 Article by an Early-Career Scholar in Democratization (2023)
Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (2022)
Academic Year Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (2021-2022)