Dr. Michael is the Director of the Arab Barometer and received the American Political Science Association Aaron Wildavsky Award for the Best Dissertation in the field of Religion and Politics. His work on Arab public opinion, political Islam and political parties has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Conflict Resolution and the Journal of Democracy, and his research on data fabrication has been covered by Science. He is a regular contributor to the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog and his analysis has appeared in Foreign Policy and The Conversation. Previously, he has served as a research fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a research associate at the Pew Research Center.