Melani Cammett

Advisory Board

Director, Weatherhead Center, and Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Department of Government

Melani Cammett is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in Harvard's Department of Government and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Cammett's books include Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon (Cornell University Press, 2014), which won the American Political Science Association Giovanni Sartori Book Award and Honorable Mention for the APSA Gregory Luebbert Book Award; A Political Economy of the Middle East (co-authored with Ishac Diwan, 2015); The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare in the Global South (co-edited with Lauren Morris MacLean, 2014); and Globalization and Business Politics in North Africa (2007). Her current research projects explore intergroup relations after "ethnic" violence, development, and identity politics. Cammett has published numerous articles in academic and policy journals and consults for development policy organizations.