Yuree Noh

Yuree Noh is a Fellow at the Middle East Initiative and an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Utah. At MEI, she has helped lead the Kuwait Public Policy Opinions Project. Specializing in authoritarian institutions and publics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), her research interests include gender & politics, electoral institutions, and public opinion & survey research. Noh’s work has been published in American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, Politics & Gender, and among others. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Project on Middle East Political Science, UCLA's International Institute, Rice University's Baker Institute Center for the Middle East, and the Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs. She received her PhD in Political Science from University of California Los Angeles and a BA in Political Science and Economics from Washington University in St. Louis. She also spent a semester abroad at the American University in Cairo.​ She has conducted fieldwork in Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Morocco, the UAE, and South Korea (Yemeni refugees in Jeju Island).