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Dr Kevin Koehler
Assistant Professor of Comparative Methods
Department of Political Science
American University in Cairo
Academic Positions
Date September 2014-present
Position Assistant Professor of Comparative Methods
University Department of Political Science, American University in
Cairo
Date September 2013-August 2014
Position Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University Department of War Studies, King’s College London
Education
Date September 2013
Degree PhD, Political Science
University European University Institute
Florence, Italy
Title of PhD thesis: Military Elites and Regime Trajectories in the
Arab Spring. Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen in Comparative Perspective.
Supervisor: Philippe C. Schmitter
Date September 2010
Degree MRes, Political and Social Sciences
University European University Institute
Date October 2008
Degree M.A., Political Science
University Eberhard Karls Universität
Florence, Italy
Tübingen, Germany
Teaching
I teach courses in Research Design, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, as well as
Comparative and Middle Eastern Politics.
Courses taught at AUC:
• POLS 1001: Introduction to Political Science
• POLS 2104: Introduction to Political Science Research Methods
• POLS 5104: Political Science Research Methods
• POLS 5201: Comparative Theory
• POLS 5235: Middle East Politics
American University in Cairo · Department of Political Science
HUSS Building · Room 2033 · P.O. Box 74, New Cairo 11835, Egypt
B [email protected] T (+2) 022615 4766
Grants and Fellowships
2014
2009-2013
2009
2007-2008
2007-2008
Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) TRE Grant, for
field research in Turkey
PhD grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Research and Teaching Fellowship at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan
Research Fellowship Without Stipend, American University in Cairo
(AUC)
Research grant from the German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD) for field research in Cairo
Publications
• ‘Authoritarian Elections in Egypt: Formal Institutions and Informal Mechanisms of
Rule,’ in: Democratization, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 974-990 (2008).
• ‘Staat, Stämme und politischer Islam im Jemen: Die Islah Partei zwischen Regime und
Opposition’ [The State, Tribes, and Political Islam in Yemen: The Islah Party Between
Regime and Opposition], in: Holger Albrecht and Kevin Koehler (eds.): Politischer Islam
im Vorderen Orient: Zwischen Sozialbewegung, Opposition und Widerstand,
(Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp. 165-182 (in German, 2008).
• ‘Dimensionen des politischen Islam im Vorderen Orient’ [Dimensions of Political Islam in
the Middle East], (with Holger Albrecht) in: Holger Albrecht and Kevin Koehler (eds.):
Politischer Islam im Vorderen Orient: Zwischen Sozialbewegung, Opposition und
Widerstand, (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp. 11-30 (in German, 2008).
• ‘Yemen’de Siyasal İslam’ [Political Islam in Yemen], in: Ayşegül Komşuoǧlu and Gül M.
Kortuoǧlu Eskişar (eds.): Siyasal Islam’ın FarklıYüzleri, (Istanbul: Profil), pp. 55-75 (in
Turkish, translation by Iris Müller, 2009).
• ‘Konzeptualisierungsstrategien, Regimetypologien und das Problem des Kontinuums’
[Strategies of Conceptualization, Regime Typologies, and the Continuum Problem], (with
Jana Warkotsch) in: Holger Albrecht and Rolf Frankenberger (eds.): Autoritarismus
Reloaded, (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp. 61-77 (in German, 2010).
• ‘Zwischen Staatszerfall und Bürgerkrieg: Der Jemen im arabischen Frühling’ [Between
Failed State and Civil War: Yemen in the Arab Spring], in: Der Bürger im Staat, Vol.
1-2/2012, pp. 48-55 (in German, 2012).
• ‘Zwischen Revolution und Religion: Die Parlamentswahlen und das entstehende
Parteiensystem in Ägypten’ [Between Revolution and Religion: Parliamentary Elections
and the Emerging Party System in Egypt], in: Holger Albrecht and Thomas
Demmelhuber (eds.): Revolution und Regimewandel in Ägypten, (Baden-Baden: Nomos),
pp. 87-109 (in German, 2013).
• ‘The 2011 Elections in Tunisia: Institutionalizing Uncertainty?,’ (with Jana Warkotsch)
in Khalil al-Anani and Mahmoud Hamad (eds.): Elections and Democratization in the
Middle East, (Basingstroke: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 9-34, (2014).
Papers and Reports
• ‘Politökonomische Kurzanalyse: Jemen,’ report prepared for the Federal Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development, (in German, 2007 and updates 2009, 2010, and
2011).
American University in Cairo · Department of Political Science
HUSS Building · Room 2033 · P.O. Box 74, New Cairo 11835, Egypt
B [email protected] T (+2) 022615 4766
• ‘Egypt and North Africa: Political Ismal and Regional Instability,’ (with Jana
Warkotsch) report prepared for the UNHCR Emergency and Technical Support Service
(2009).
• ‘Authoritarian Institution Building. Electoral Politics and Ruling Party Formation in
Post-Revolutionary’ Kyrgyzstan,’ OSCE Academy in Bishkek (2009).
• ‘All the King’s Men: the Emergence of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) in
Morocco,’ in: IPRIS Maghreb Review No. 6, October/November 2010, pp. 1-2.
• ‘Ägypten’ [Egypt], in: Internationales Handbuch Länder Aktuell, Munzinger Archiv
Ravensburg (2010).
• ‘Al-Lawā’ih. wa-l-Qāwānı̄n al-Munathama li-H
. aqq al-Tas.wı̄t fi-l-‘Alam (1950-2000)
[Regulations and Laws Governing the Right to Vote in the World (1950-2000)], in:
al-Dı̄muqrāt.ı̄ya (Democracy Review), No. 40, October 2010, (in Arabic, translation by
Mervat Diab, 2010).
• ‘Politökonomische Kurzanalyse: Ägypten,’ report prepared for the Federal Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development, (in German, 2012).
• ‘Egypt: The Return of the Generals and the Future of Transition,’ OpenDemocracy, 12
July 2013.
Professional Experience
Period October 2013-Present
Position Freelance Consultant
Institution German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
Report on governance issues in Egypt in the framework of the EUfunded ANTICORRP project.
Period 2007-Present
Position Freelance Consultant
Institution German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and
Development
Reports on development issues in Egypt (2012) and Yemen (2009,
2010, 2011).
Period 2009
Position Research and Teaching Fellow
Institution OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Graduate level course on regime change in Central Asia; research
project on electoral and party politics in Kyrgyzstan.
Period 2007-2008
Position Research Fellow
Institution American University in Cairo (AUC)
Field research on electoral politics in Egypt.
Period 2006-2007
Position Freelance Instructor
Institution Public Agency for Civic Education (Landeszentrale für politische Bildung)
Courses on the Middle East Conflic, Political Islam, the conflict in
Afghanistan; audience: high school students, officers-in-training of
the German armed forces.
American University in Cairo · Department of Political Science
HUSS Building · Room 2033 · P.O. Box 74, New Cairo 11835, Egypt
B [email protected] T (+2) 022615 4766