Ivy a. raines

Ivy is a rising 4^th year Ph.D. student in the department of political science. Her research centers on comparative nation-building and legal systems in the Muslim world with regional focuses in North Africa and Central Asia. In 2021, Ivy was awarded a Boren Fellowship to conduct her doctoral research in Tajikistan on the relationship between religion, nationalism, and gender as it relates to Islamic revivalism which she will begin in January 2022.

At Syracuse University, Ivy is affiliated with the Middle East Studies Program (MESP), the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC), and the Institute for Security Policy and Law (ISPL). Ivy has additionally been a part of Syracuse University's "Future Professoriate Program" (FPP) and has been an instructor for PSC 123: Introduction to Comparative Politics and is scheduled to teach PSC 342: The Arab Israeli Conflict in the fall of 2021.

In addition to her university affiliations, Ivy currently serves as a member of the Arab Center for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Education (ACHIL) headquartered in Strasbourg, France where she previously worked as a research fellow in the summer of 2019. Other work experience includes the founding of the St. Lawrence Chapter of the Euphrates Institute - an international non-profit dedicated to promoting positive U.S relations with the developing world, and programs sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in Washington State (NWCCI) and Massachusetts (Civic Initiative), all of which influenced Ivy's interest in international relations and comparative politics.