Hani Abdel-Warith is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He is on the 2025-2026 job market.

Hani studies comparative politics across those societies in Africa and Asia that achieved independence after the Second World War. Hani maintains a primary regional focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

His dissertation, “Fellahin into Frenchmen: Social Control and Educational Supply in the Postcolonial Maghreb” explores the spatial, strategic and deeply political logic of secondary schooling provision under autocracy in Morocco and Tunisia.

In co-authored work with Amaney Jamal, Elizabeth Nugent, H. E. Ceyhun and Gordon Arsenoff he is exploring the logic of mosque supply across the MENA region.

His joint research with H. E. Ceyhun has been published in Mediterranean Politics.