Jeannie Sowers

Jeannie L. Sowers is Professor and Chair of the Political Science and International Affairs Department at the University of New Hampshire. Her research explores political and environmental change in the Middle East and North Africa, with a recent focus on protracted conflicts and environmental infrastructures.

Her books include Environmental Politics in Egypt: Experts, Activists, and the State (Routledge, 2013), Modern Egypt: What Everyone Needs to Know with Bruce Rutherford (Oxford University Press, 2019), The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest, and Social Change in Egypt (Verso, 2012), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics (2023), and a number of articles and book chapters. She is currently a non-resident fellow at the Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution, and in 2021-22 held a Faculty Leave Fellowship at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University.

At UNH, Prof. Sowers teaches courses in environmental politics, Middle East politics, comparative politics, and international relations for the Department of Political Science and International Affairs. She is a member of the graduate faculty for the Natural Resources and Earth Systems Science Ph.D. program.

Prof Sowers serves on the editorial board of Global Environmental Politics, is a member of Environmental Studies Executive Committee for the International Studies Association (ISA), and and a former editorial board member for Middle East Report. She holds a BA from Harvard University and PhD. from Princeton University. She has held postdoctoral fellowships and visiting appointments at Brandeis University, Harvard University and Oxford University. Her research has been funded by Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, and the American Council of Overseas Research Centers, among others.