Rate My Professor Ian Hartshorn

Ian M. Hartshorn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. As a first-generation college student, he earned a B.A. in Religion and Middle East Studies from Bucknell University in 2007, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. Hartshorn joined the faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno in 2015.

His research focuses on labor and working-class contentious politics under authoritarian and democratizing regimes, with a special interest in the strategic choices made by trade unions. Other projects explore higher education, qualitative research methods, and the role of rentier and state-led economic strategies in comparative perspectives. Hartshorn is the author of Labor Politics in North Africa: After the Uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Notable publications include “Organized Interests in Constitutional Assemblies: Egypt and Tunisia in Comparison” (Political Research Quarterly, 2017), “Global Labor and the Arab Uprisings: Picking Winners in Tunisia and Egypt” (Global Governance, 2018), “‘Marching from all governorates’: labour lacunae in Mubarak’s Egypt” (Economy and Society, 2018), “(Re)Constituting Community: Takfir and Institutional Design in Tunisia and Yemen” with Stacey Philbrick Yadav (Terrorism and Political Violence, 2020), “Securitising the new Egypt: Partisan vs. Revolutionary Demands” with Janicke Stramer-Smith (The Journal of North African Studies, 2021), and “Education As The ‘Silver Bullet’: Bringing Politics Into The Study Of Social Mobility, Redistribution, And Education” with Allison Evans (New Political Science, 2021). His work has appeared in The Washington Post and Jadaliyya. In 2020, he received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching, Continuing Faculty, from the College of Liberal Arts. Hartshorn is a former co-chair of the American Political Science Association Labor Politics group, serves on the editorial board of Mediterranean Politics, and is co-Principal Investigator of the Regimes and Political Parties Project with Dr. Allison Evans.