Miriam Bohn, M.A.
- Job title: Research Associate
- Organization: Department of Political Science
- Working group: Lehrstuhl für Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen Ostens
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-26757
- Email: miriam.bohn@fau.de
- Address: Kochstraße 4
91054 ErlangenRoom 4.032
Research Associate in the DFG project ‘Decentralization in the Arab World: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan from a comparative perspective’
- since 01/2018: Research associate for the DFG project ‘Decentralization in the Arab World: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan from a comparative perspective’ (Prof. Thomas Demmelhuber and Prof. Roland Sturm) and PhD student at the Institute for Political Science, Chair of Middle East Politics and Society at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 04/2016 – 12/2017: Student research assistant at the Institute for Political Science, Chair of Middle East Politics and Society (Prof. Thomas Demmelhuber) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 10/2014 – 09/2017: Master degree in Political Science at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
- 10/2010 – 03/2014: Bachelor degree in Social Sciences at University of Stuttgart and Brunel University London
- Countries: Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
- Topics: Authoritarian persistence, international organizations, contentious politics, elite networks, Arab local politics
- DFG project ‘Decentralization in the Arab World: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan from a comparative perspective’
- PhD project ‘The Uninvited Guest? Linking Decentralization Efforts and Elite Networks in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’ (working title)
Publications
- Bohn, M., Demmelhuber, T., Sturm, R., & Vollmann, E. (2018). Dezentralisierung in der arabischen Welt: ein konzeptioneller Zugang. In Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus-Forschung Tübingen (Eds.), Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2018. (pp. 157-171). Baden-Baden: Nomos.
- Bohn, M., Vollmann, E. & Zumbrägel, T. (2018). Abenteuer am Golf: Saudi-Arabiens Wandel unter den Salmans. In Gesellschaft. Wirtschaft. Politik. (GWP) 67(2/2018). (pp. 167-173). URL: https://doi.org/10.3224/gwp.v67i2.01
Presentations at Conferences
- ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops (Mons, April 8-12, 2019). Presented topic: „Decentralization Strategies in Jordan and Morocco: Local Empowerment or Authoritarian Upgrading?“.
- German Political Science Association (GPSA) „Frontiers of Democracy“ (Frankfurt a. Main, September 25-28, 2018). Presented topic: „Sectarianism for the Sake of Regime Resilience. Saudi Arabia’s Regional Foreign Policy“.
- World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) (Sevilla, July 16-20, 2018). Presented topic: „Sectarianism for the Sake of Regime Resilience. Saudi Arabia’s Regional Foreign Policy“.
- DAAD-PROMOS scholarship for Modern Standard Arabic Level 1 at Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman, Jordan (06/2017 – 09/2017)