Benstead, Lindsay J. ^{Individualisierte Person Person}

Associate professor of political science at Portland State University and contributing scholar in the Women's Rights in the Middle East Program at Rice University. She has conducted surveys in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Jordan and contributes to the Transitional Governance Project and the Program on Governance and Local Development at Yale University and University of Gothenburg. Her research has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Governance, and Foreign Affairs. She holds a PhD in public policy and political science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and served as a fellow at Yale and Princeton Universities.