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Harrold, Deborah

Senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science and the Liberal and Professional Studies program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a political scientist specializing in the comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Her research and teaching interests include economic policy and history, cultures of economics, comparative democratic processes and democratic thought, issues of gender and women's rights, and Islamic politics. Her research tackles the intersection of economics, culture, and politics, including publications on the informal economy, economic discourse, and business interest articulation in Algerian politics. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago.