Dr. Jessie Moritz

Biography

Jessie Moritz holds a PhD from the Australian National University, where her dissertation received the international 2017 Dissertation Prize from the Association of Gulf Arabian Peninsula Studies. Her research focuses on the political economy of energy in the Arabian Peninsula, with particular attention to state-society relations, diversification strategies, and renewable energy transitions. At ANU, she co-convenes the Security research cluster at the Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions. Internationally, Jessie serves as a Board Member at-large for the Association of Gulf Arabian Peninsula Studies. She previously held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Transregional Institute of Princeton University, where she focused on economic reform programs in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and lectured on political economic development in the Middle East. She has held various visiting fellow positions in the Gulf and the UK, including at the King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh, the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, and the Gulf Studies Program at Qatar University. At ANU, she teaches in areas related to Middle Eastern political economy, development in the Gulf, and international relations, supervising PhD, Masters, and Honours candidates on topics related to Gulf political economy and state-society relations. Her research has been published in several journals, including International Affairs, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and the Journal of Arabian Studies, and she is currently working on a book project leveraging in-depth fieldwork across Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia to examine bottom-up micropolitics of rentierism.

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