Resume

• 2012

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Research Focus:\n \nDEMOCRATIZATION AND REGIMES TRANSITIONS\nStateness

  Democratic Transition

  Consolidation\nRole of the Military in Regime Transition\n\nAUTHORITARIAN REGIMES\nInstitutions: Legislatures

  Elections and Constitutions. \nDeterminants of Resilience\t\n \nNATIONALISM AND STATE BUILDING\nRelationship between fractionalization based on identity (ethno-linguistic or religious) and state building \nTheories of Nationalism\n\nRegional Focus: Cross national and Arab World. Arabian Peninsula.

  Political Science and Government

  University of Houston

• 2010

  Master of Arts (M.A.)

  Political Science and Government

  Major: Comparative Politics\nMinor: Political Theory

  University of Houston

• 2004

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

  Major in Finance

  and Minor in Economics

  King Fahd University for Petrolium and Minerals

• Stata

  Roll Call Vote Analysis

  Analysis

  Microsoft Office

  Data Analysis

  Middle East/Arab Politics

  International Relations

  Statistics

  Research

  Geographic Information System (GIS)

  Comparative Politics

  Qualitative Research

  R

  Team Leadership

  Allarakia

  To learn more about my academic research

  projects and teaching please visit my website http://luaiallarakia.weebly.com/\n\n

  Luai

  Allarakia

  University of Houston

  James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy -- Rice University

  University of Houston

  University of Houston

  University of Houston

  James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy -- Rice University

  University of Houston

  C.T. Bauer College of Business

  Middle East Institute

  Instructor for the following course:\n\nFall 2016 \n\nPOLS 3315- International Organization\n\nPOLS 1337- American Government II- Congress

  President and Courts\n\nSpring 2017\n\nPOLS 3326: Government and Politics in the Middle East

  Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political of Science

  Houston

  Texas Area

  University of Houston

  Worked for Dr. Tanya Bagashka\n\n•\tCompiled literature on corruption and its connection with ethnic fractionalization and electoral laws.\n\n•\tAnalyzed existing datasets to ascertain usefulness for Dr. Bagashka’s ongoing projects and merged them to facilitate statistical analysis. \n\n•\tCoded articles to transform them into content analysis datasets.

  Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

  Houston

  Texas Area

  University of Houston

  Worked for Dr. Robert Lineberry\n\n•\tAssisted in development of curricula. \n•\tHelped build and design online components of the class on Blackboard.\n•\tHelped develop reading lists and syllabi for:\n a. Undergraduate Course: Politics of Social Policy\n b. Graduate Course: Survey of American Institutions

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Houston

  Texas Area

  University of Houston

  Worked for Dr. Cyrus Contractor & Dr. Brian Cole \n\n•\tAssisted in development of assignments and graded all weekly discussion papers. \n•\tProvided one-on-one tutoring to students in the classes.\n•\tCourses: Introduction to American Government

  Introduction to Texas Government.

  University of Houston

  University of Houston

  C.T. Bauer College of Business

  Working for Instructors Mrs. Jamie Beline and Mrs. Mariella De Alba. The course is called from Bauer to Business. \n\n* Oversee attendance and participation in class. \n\n* Grade exams and papers. \n\n* Assist students with conducting business interviews and writing proper resumes. \n\n* Help with and oversee any activities connected to the Bauer School and the Rockwell Career Center.

  Instructional Assistant

  Houston

  Texas Area

  Worked for Dr. Marwa Shalaby again. See the previous entry on the Baker Institute as this was a continuation of the same projects and tasks described in that entry.

  Research Associate

  Houston

  Texas Area

  James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy -- Rice University

  Worked for Dr. Marwa Shalaby the the Director of the Women and Human Rights in the Middle East Program \n\n•\tResearch on elections

  electoral rules and the representation of women in Arab legislatures.\n\n• Analyzed electoral laws

  translating them from Arabic

  and transforming them into working datasets. \n\n•\tProvided oversight for translation work within the Baker Institute. \n\n•\tLent statistical expertise to other ongoing projects within the Institute.

  Research Associate

  Houston

  Texas Area

  James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy -- Rice University

  * Collaborated with Dr. Zubair Iqbal\n* Conducted research on the roots of terrorism in the Middle East : Algeria

  Pakistan

  Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

  Research Assistant

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  Middle East Institute

  Worked for Dr. Susan Scarrow \n•\tAssisted in creating

  coding and gathering data for the “Political Party Database”.

  Graduate Research Assistant

  Houston

  Texas Area

  University of Houston

  Arabic

  English

  Spanish

  Teaching Assistantship

  University of Houston

  Doctoral Student Tuition Fellowship

  University of Houston

  Teaching Assistantship

  University of Houston

  Participation in APSA's 3rd Annual MENA Workshop

  Two part competitive workshop one based in Doha

  Qatar May 2015 and another in Kuwait city

  Kuwait December 2015.

  American Political Science Association (APSA)

  Student Research Grant

  Center for the Middle East (CME) At Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy

  Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship

  University of Houston

  Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship

  University of Houston