• since 10/2020: Research associate at the Chair of Middle East Politics and Society at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and PhD candidate
• 01/2018 – 10/2020: 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 candidate 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, Saudi Arabia
• Topics: Authoritarian resilience, contentious politics, elite networks, local politics, and state-society relations in the Middle East
• DFG project ‘Decentralization in the Arab World: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan from a comparative perspective’
• PhD project ‘The Autocrat’s Guide to the Periphery: Linking Decentralization Efforts and Elite Networks in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’ (working title)

Publications

• Vollmann, Erik, Bohn, Miriam, Sturm, Roland & Demmelhuber, Thomas (2020). Decentralisation as authoritarian upgrading? Evidence from Jordan and Morocco, The Journal of North African Studies, pp. 1–32. DOI: 10.1080/13629387.2020.1787837
• Karmel, Ezra & Bohn, Miriam (2020). Decentralization in Jordan. In Shalaby, Marwa, Weiss, Chagai, Lust, Ellen M., Kao, Kristen, Vollmann, Erik, Bergh, Sylvia I., Karmel, Ezra, Bohn, Miriam, Kherigi, Intissar & Kadirbeyoglu, Zeynep (2020). The Dynamics of Decentralization in the MENA: Processes, Outcomes, and Obstacles. The Program on Governance and Local Development, Working Paper No. 31 2020: 40-53. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg.
• Bohn, Miriam, Demmelhuber, Thomas, Sturm, Roland, & Vollmann, Erik (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, Miriam, Vollmann, Erik & Zumbrägel, Tobias (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

• Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting (New Orleans, November 13 – 17, 2019). Presented topic: „New Players, New Rules? Analyzing the Impact of Decentralization on Central and Subnational Elite Networks in Jordan”.
• International DAVO Congress of Contemporary Research on the Middle East (Hamburg, October 3 – 5, 2019). Presented topic: „New Players, New Rules? Analyzing the Impact of Decentralization on Central and Subnational Elite Networks in Jordan”.
• 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“.

Seminars

• Middle East Cold War: The Rivalry Between Saudi Arabia and Iran (summer semester 2021, BA seminar)
• Still Standing Strong: Autocracies in the Middle East (summer semester 2021, BA seminar)
• The “Safe Haven” of the Middle East? Politics and Society of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (winter semester 2020/21, BA seminar)

• DAAD-PROMOS scholarship for Modern Standard Arabic Level 1 at Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman, Jordan (06/2017 – 09/2017)