Anne Mariel Peters (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses in comparative politics and the politics of the Middle East.

Peters conducts research in the following three areas: (1) the political economy of foreign aid to US geopolitical allies; (2) the domestic origins of US hierarchy in the Middle East; and (3) the durability of Middle Eastern authoritarianism. Her book manuscript, entitled Aid for Allies: State Building and Hierarchy in the Middle East, explains the composition of US aid, aid’s impact on state-building, and aid’s impact on donor-recipient relations in Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority.

Peters has conducted fieldwork in Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, and Jordan, as well as at various archives in the US and abroad. She is proficient in Modern Standard Arabic and conversational in Levantine dialect.