# About the Director ## Melani Cammett, Director, 2021–present ![Melani Cammett](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/wcfia/files/mcammett-favorite.jpg?itok=orC1RmmA) **Melani Cammett** is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Cammett's books include [*The Oxford Handbook on Politics in Muslim Societies*](https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190931056.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190931056) (coedited with Pauline Jones, Oxford University Press 2022), [*Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon*](https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801478932/compassionate-communalism/#bookTabs=1) (Cornell University Press 2014), which won the American Political Science Association (APSA) Giovanni Sartori Book Award and the Honorable Mention for the APSA Gregory Luebbert Book Award; [*A Political Economy of the Middle East*](https://www.routledge.com/A-Political-Economy-of-the-Middle-East/Cammett/p/book/9780813349381) (coauthored with Ishac Diwan, Alan Richards, and John Waterbury, Routledge 2015); [*The Politics of Non-State Social Welfare in the Global South*](https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801479281/the-politics-of-non-state-social-welfare/#bookTabs=1) (coedited with Lauren Morris MacLean, Cornell University Press 2014), which received the Honorable Mention for the ARNOVA book award; and [*Globalization and Business Politics in North Africa*](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/globalization-and-business-politics-in-arab-north-africa/595F56B66BB6C15F294B5CC543F9F4B1) (Cambridge University Press 2007). Her research explores identity politics, conflict, and development, primarily in the Middle East, and she is currently working on a book on postwar intergroup relations in Bosnia, Lebanon, and Northern Ireland. Cammett has published numerous articles in academic and policy journals, consults for development policy organizations, and is the recipient of various fellowships and awards. ### Related Links - [Personal Website](http://www.melanicammett.org/) - [Harvard Department of Government](https://gov.harvard.edu/home) - Twitter: [@MelaniCammett](https://twitter.com/MelaniCammett) ## Contact **Kathleen Hoover** *Executive Assistant to Professor Melani Cammett.* 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K218 Cambridge, MA 02138 [ [Map](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1737%20Cambridge%20Street,%20Cambridge,%20MA%2002138&hl=en&sll=42.375523,-71.11285&sspn=0.01154,0.024784&hnear=1737%20Cambridge%20St,%20Cambridge,%20Middlesex,%20Massachusetts%2002138&t=m&z=16) ] ## About the Center [### About the Center ](/about) ![Crimson-colored triangles over an image of fall leaves.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-04/Cosponsored%20Event%206.png?h=7fce7e43&itok=tOkpeDrE) [### Past Directors ](/about/past-directors) ![Dark green angled shapes over an aerial photo of the Knafel Building and the Weatherhead logo in white on top.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-04/Cosponsored%20Event%205.png?h=920929c4&itok=9oUlJQRr) [### In Theory and In Practice: Harvard's Center for International Affairs, 1958–1983 ](/about/theory-and-practice-harvards-center-international-affairs-1958%E2%80%931983) ![Image of 1958–1959 CFIA class photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/wcfia/files/wcfia_58-59_700px.jpg?itok=67w5ssou)