Dr Anne Wolf

Dr Anne Wolf

BSc, MPhil, DPhil
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Politics and International Relations
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow since 2019

Anne is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Politics and International Relations, elected in 2019. Her research areas include North Africa, authoritarianism, political Islam, the Arab uprisings, contentious politics and revolutions

Research Areas
North Africa
Authoritarianism
Political Islam
Arab Uprisings
Contentious Politics
Revolutions

Selected Publications

Wolf, A. 2025. “Technology, Non-State Actors and the Crisis of Liberal Governance: Security and Conflict Studies in the Twenty-First Century.”

Perspectives on Politics, 23(2): 717–720 (with Kathrin Bachleitner and Sarah Bufkin).

Wolf, A. 2024. "How Erroneous Beliefs Trigger Authoritarian Collapse: The Case of Tunisia, January 14, 2011."

Comparative Political Studies.

Perry, E. & A. Wolf. 2024. "Contentious Politics under Authoritarianism: State-Mobilized Movements."

A. Wolf (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics.

Wolf, A. 2024. "Bringing the State back in: Ruling parties and regime collapse during the Arab Uprisings."

Politics.

Wolf, A. 2024 (Ed). The Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics.

Oxford University Press

Wolf. A. 2023. Ben Ali's Tunisia: Power and Contention in an Authoritarian Regime.

 Oxford: Oxford University Press

Background
  • Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Politics and International Relations, Girton College, University of Cambridge (from 2017 to 2019)
  •  Postgraduate, St Antony’s College, Oxford (2018) 
  • Postgraduate, Clare College, Cambridge (2011) 
  • Undergraduate, University of Twente (2010)