Soha Hammam

Soha is a Research Associate at the Nonviolent Action Lab’s Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC), where she works with Research Project Manager Dr. Jay Ulfelder and faculty PIs Dr. Erica Chenoweth and Dr. Jeremy Pressman (University of Connecticut) to advance a dynamic portfolio of research, writing, and dissemination activities. This involves the meticulous collection and analysis of real-time event data concerning political mobilization and law enforcement responses across the United States.

Soha was a Democracy Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for the academic year 2023-2024. Her research examines the prospects for political change in authoritarian regimes through nonviolent collective action, with a specific focus on the MENA region. Soha’s current work also involves the application of computational social science methods to study strategies to empower vulnerable populations and address issues related to social justice and inequality. Her research has been published in Regional Studies, Regional Science.

Soha holds a doctorate in Political Science and a master’s in applied data science and international studies from Claremont Graduate University. She was a 2021-2022 Peace Scholar Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, a national, nonpartisan, independent institute founded by Congress and dedicated to peacebuilding and conflict mitigation worldwide. She was also a recipient of the 2021-2022 Transdisciplinary Studies Dissertation Award from Claremont Graduate University.