Melani Claire Cammett

Melani Cammett is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government at Harvard University. She holds a secondary faculty appointment in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Cammett specializes in the politics of development, identity politics and the Middle East; teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on comparative politics, development, and Middle East politics; and consults for development policy organizations. Cammett's current research focuses on governance and the politics of social service provision by public, private and non-state actors, identity politics, and the historical influences of economic and social development with an empirical focus in the Middle East. She also co-edits the Cambridge University Press Elements series on the Politics of Development and serves as a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Syria, which will release a report on the humanitarian crisis in Syria in 2018.