I am an assistant professor of political science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany-State University of New York (SUNY). Prior to this, I was a post-doctoral fellow in the same department (2017-2018). My book project examines why political parties in Pakistan engage in violence and the variation in violence strategies that they employ. My other research interests include political behavior, the politics of religion and ethnicity, voters and foreign policy, and the politics of South Asia. My work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Party Politics, and Politics & Religion.
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My work has been supported by Innovations for Poverty Action, the U.S. Institute of Peace, Stimson Center, the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives, and several centers at Yale University, including the South Asia Center, the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy,  and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.  

I previously worked at the International Crisis Group  and the International Organization for Migration in Islamabad and the American Civil Liberties Union  in New York. I have a PhD in Political Science from Yale University, an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a B.A. in English from Haverford College.

You can contact me at: nasiddiqui@albany.edu