Mark A Tessler
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Professor Tessler specializes in Comparative Politics, Public Opinion, and Middle East Studies. He has studied and/or conducted field research in Tunisia, Israel, Morocco, Egypt, Palestine (West Bank and Gaza), and Qatar. Many of Professor Tessler’s scholarly publications examine the nature, determinants, and political implications of the attitudes and values held by ordinary citizens in the Middle East and North Africa. He has focused in particular on attitudes and values pertaining to governance, to women, to Islam, and to international relations. Many of his research findings are brought together in his book, Public Opinion in the Middle East: Survey Research and the Political Orientations of Ordinary Citizens.
Professor Tessler has also written extensively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is one of the very few American scholars to have attended university and lived for extended periods both in Israel and in the Arab world. His book, A History of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, has received national honors and awards. Professor Tessler has also spent several years teaching at universities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Professor Tessler is co-founder and co-director of the Arab Barometer survey project. Since its establishment in 2006, the Arab Barometer has carried out 37 surveys in 15 countries and conducted face-to-face interviews with more than 43,000 respondents. Data from all waves have been placed in the public domain for use by others and may be downloaded from the Barometer’s website. In 2017, the website had more than 100,000 hits and 45,000 downloads of data and reports. Professor Tessler is PI or co-PI on successful proposals that have raised $2.8 million for the next wave of Arab Barometer surveys and associated activities.
Professor Tessler has organized and directed social science research training and capacity-building programs in many Middle Eastern and African countries. During 2019-2020, partially with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, this will include six workshops and international conferences to be held in Arab countries.
- Tessler,Mark A. 2022. Mapping and Explaining Arab Attitudes toward the Islamic State: Findings from an Arab Barometer Survey and Embedded Experiment. Mapping and Explaining Arab Attitudes toward the Islamic State: Findings from an Arab Barometer Survey and Embedded Experiment
- Alon Yakter, Mark A Tessler. 2022. The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation: Doubtful doves and the breakdown of Israel's left-right dichotomy. Journal of Peace Research 60(3):504–520.
- Mark A Tessler. 2022. Social Science Research in the Arab World and Beyond.
- Diana B. Greenwald, Mark A Tessler. 2022. After the Uprising: the Intifada-Oslo Generation and Attitudes Toward the Palestinian Police. Middle East Law and Governance 14(3):388-413.
- Tessler, Mark A. 2020. Israel and Morocco: The Political Calculus of a "Moderate" Arab State (1990). Religious Minorities in Non-Secular Middle Eastern and North African States :213-246.
- Tessler, Mark A, Palmer, Monte , Farah, Tawfic E, Ibrahim, Barbara . 2019. The Evaluation And Application of Survey Research in the Arab World. :196.
- Tessler, Mark A, Gengler, Justin J, Lucas, Russell , Forney, Jonathan . 2019. 'Why Do You Ask?' The Nature and Impacts of Attitudes towards Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World. British Journal of Political Science
- Tessler,Mark A. 2019. Why Do You Ask? The Nature and Impacts of Attitudes Toward Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World. Why Do You Ask? The Nature and Impacts of Attitudes Toward Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World 51(1):115-136.
- Tessler, Mark A, Yakter, Alon . 2018. Understanding Multiple Perspectives: The Contribution of a Short-Essay Assignment to Teaching about the Arab-Israeli Conflict. PS: Political Science & Politics 51(2):434-439.
- Tessler, Mark A, Diop, Abdoulaye , Jardina, Ashley E, Wittrock, Jill . 2017. Antecedents of trust among citizens and non-citizens in qatar. Journal of International Migration and Integration 18(1):183-202.