Kristin Fabbe is a Faculty Affiliate at the Belfer Center's Middle East Initiative. She is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, where she teaches the course of the same name in the MBA required curriculum. Her primary expertise is in comparative politics, with a regional focus on the Middle East and Southeastern Europe, particularly Turkey. 

Professor Fabbe is Co-Chair for the study group on Colonial Encounters and Divergent Development Trajectories in the Mediterranean at the Center for European Studies at Harvard. 

In her research, Professor Fabbe seeks to understand the relationship between state-driven development strategies and identity politics. She has analyzed the role of religious elites, institutions, and attachments in state centralization initiatives in Greece, Turkey, and Egypt, and examined how laws, norms, and access to capital shape the experiences of female business owners in Northern Iraq and the wider Middle East. Her opinion pieces on regional issues have been published in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Professor Fabbe received her PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also holds an MSc in international relations from the London School of Economics and a BA in history from Lewis and Clark College. Before joining HBS, she was an Assistant Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College.

Read more about Professor Fabbe's research and teaching at her Harvard Business School profile.