Lindsay Benstead
Professional affiliation
Expertise
Conflict Resolution
Democracy
Education
Gender
Governance
Human Rights
Full Biography
Lindsay J. Benstead is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government and Director of the Middle East Studies Center (MESC) at Portland State University. Previously, she served as Fellow in the Middle East Program and the Women’s Global Leadership Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC (2018-2019) and Kuwait Visiting Professor at SciencesPo in Paris (fall 2016). Benstead has conducted surveys in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Jordan, Malawi, and Kenya. Her research on women and politics, public opinion, and survey methodology has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Governance, and Foreign Affairs. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and served as a doctoral fellow at Yale University and a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University. For more on her research, see https://pdx.academia.edu/LindsayBenstead.
Lindsay Benstead
Associate Professor of Political Science, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University & Director, Middle East Studies Center (MESC), Portland State University
The Wilson Center provided much more than time and space to write. The Wilson Center is a family. The connections I made here—and the skills that the staff imparted—shaped me into a more publically engaged scholar for the years to come.
Major Publications
- Lindsay J. Benstead. 2016. “Why Quotas Are Needed to Improve Women’s Access to Services in Clientelistic Regimes.” Governance 29(2): 185-205. doi:10.1111/gove.12162. First published online 2015. doi: 10.1080/21565503.2015.1084338.
- Benstead, Lindsay J., and Dan Van Lehman. Forthcoming. “Two Classes of ‘Marriage’: Race and Sexual Slavery in Al-Shabaab-Controlled Southern Somalia.” The Journal of the Middle East and Africa. Published online June 18, 2021. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NENIVX763BZXGWDSNGTZ/full?target=10.1080/21520844.2021.1923998 https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NENIVX763BZXGWDSNGTZ/full?target=10.1080/21520844.2021.1923998
- Lindsay J. Benstead. 2018. “Survey Research in the Arab World: Challenges and Opportunities.” PS: Political Science and Politics 51(3): 535-542.
Previous Terms
September 4, 2018-August 23, 2019