Neil Ketchley is Associate Professor in Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Fellow of St Antony's College. He is a political scientist of the Arabic-speaking Middle East and North Africa working at the intersections of political sociology and comparative politics. Neil's book, Egypt in a Time of Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2017), won the Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award. His research has been published in journals such as the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and Perspectives on Politics.
Neil's current research interests include episodes of mass protest in the MENA, the rise of political Islam in Egypt, and the changing profiles of regional political elites.
Publications
Book
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Egypt in a Time of Revolution (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Series in Contentious Politics), 2017
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Charles Tilly 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, American Sociological Association
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Articles
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"Online Repression and Tactical Evasion: Evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger Protests in Egypt" (with Philipp Lutscher), Democratization, FirstView, 2022
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"Beatings, Burnings, and Bombings: Disaggregating Anti-Christian Violence in Egypt, 2013-2018" (with Christopher Barrie and Killian Clarke), Perspectives on Politics, FirstView, 2022
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"Who Supported the Early Muslim Brotherhood?" (with Steven Brooke and Brynjar Lia), Politics and Religion, Vol.15, No.2, 2022, pp. 388-416
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"Unpopular Protest: Mass Mobilization and Attitudes to Democracy in Post-Mubarak Egypt" (withThoraya El-Rayyes), Journal of Politics, Vol.83, No.1, 2021, pp.291-305
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Best Data Set/Quantitative Analysis Award 2022, MENA Politics Section, American Political Science Association
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"After the Massacre: Women's Islamist Activism in Post-Coup Egypt" (with Sarah ElMasry), Middle East Law and Governance, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2020, pp. 86-108
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"Fridays of Revolution: Focal Days and Mass Protest in Egypt and Tunisia" (with Christopher Barrie), Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 2, 2020, pp. 308–324
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“Fraud in the 2018 Egyptian Presidential Election?” Mediterranean Politics, Vol.26, No.1, 2019, pp.117-129
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"Opportunity without Organization: Labor Mobilization in Egypt after the 25th January Revolution" (with Christopher Barrie) Mobilization, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2018, pp. 181-202
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"Social and Institutional Origins of Political Islam" (with Steven Brooke), American Political Science Review , Vol. 112, no. 2, 2018, pp. 376-394.
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“Sticks, Stones, and Molotov Cocktails: Unarmed Collective Violence and Democratization” (with Muhammad Ali Kadivar), Socius , Vol. 4, 2018, pp.1-16
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"The Educational Contexts of Islamic Activism: Elite Students and Religious Institutions in Egypt" (with Michael Biggs), Mobilization , Vol. 1, 2017, pp. 57-76
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“The Army and the People are One Hand! Fraternization and the 25th January Egyptian Revolution,” Comparative Studies in Society and History , Vol. 1, 2014, pp. 155-186