Skip to main content
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
Kent State Home
  • Apply
  • Visit
  • Give Now
  • FlashLine Login
  • Calendars
  • Phone Directory
  • Maps & Directions
  • Search
Menu Search
  • About
    Close
    • About Overview
    • University Information
    • Work at Kent
    • Information For
  • Academics
    Close
    • Academics Overview
    • Areas of Study
    • Learning at Kent State
    • Information & Resources
  • Admissions
    Close
    • Admissions Overview
    • Kent Campus Admissions
    • Regional Campus Admissions
    • Tuition & Financial Aid
    • To Dos
  • Life at KSU
    Close
    • Life at KSU Overview
    • Discover Kent
    • Campus Life
    • Recreation and Wellness Services
    • Campus Resources
  • Athletics
    Close
    • Athletics Overview
    • Intercollegiate Sports
    • Organized Activities
    • Fitness & Fun
    • Stay Connected
  • Our Research
    Close
    • Our Research Overview
    • Research and Economic Development
    • Offices
    • Institutes and Initiatives
    • Research Resources
  • Locations
    Close
    • Locations Overview
    • Ohio Campuses
    • Other U.S. Academic Locations
    • Kent State Worldwide
  • Campus Safety
    Close
    • Campus Safety Overview
    • I Need Help ...
    • Services
    • Frontline Responders
    • Quick Links
  • FlashLine Login
  • Calendars
  • Phone Directory
  • Maps & Directions
  • Search
  • Apply
  • Visit
  • Give Now
Live Chat
Dr. Joshua Stacher

Joshua Stacher

Kent State University at Kent
Professor
Campus:
Kent
Contact Information
Email:
jstacher@kent.edu
Phone:
330-672-8922

Biography

Joshua Stacher is a Professor of International Studies in the School of Multidisciplinary Social Studies and Humanities. Stacher’s scholarship has focused on politics, state violence, and protests in the Middle East and North Africa. His classes mainly examine state violence produced by settler colonialism, mobility restrictions, ethnocratic rule, and empire as well as social resistance to these oppressions.  

Stacher's most recent book, Watermelon Democracy: Egypt's Turbulent Transition, was published in 2020. He is also the author of Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt & Syria (Stanford UP, 2012) as well as other peer-reviewed journal articles. He is a former editorial committee member of MERIP's Middle East Report.  He is a founding member of the Northeast Ohio Consortium on Middle East Studies (NOCMES), which focuses on public scholarship in Northeast Ohio. He has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and won grants from The Social Science Research Council, The Project on Middle East Political Science, The British Council, and The Palestinian American Research Center.

Stacher uses contemplative and embodied pedagogical approaches within a trauma-sensative teaching framework to learn with his students. In 2022, he was a Teaching Scholar at Kent State's Center for Teaching and Learning. In 2023, he was one of ten finalists for the Alumni Association's prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award.

Stacher is a registered Yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance (RTY 200).

 

Education

Ph.D., University of St. Andrews School of International Relations, 2007
M.A., Political Science, The American University in Cairo, 2002
B.A., History and English, Washington & Jefferson College, 1998

News Stories

Middle East Scholars Group Moves to Delete "Nonpolitical" From Bylaws, How the US Helped Build Egypt's Prison State, Egypt's 'Watermelon democracy',

Mailing Address

800 E. Summit St.
Kent, OH 44242

Contact Us
  • 330-672-3000
  • info@kent.edu

  • facebook
  • instagram
  • youtube
  • linkedin
  • TikTok
  • X
  • snapchat
  • ...
Information
  • Accessibility
  • Annual Security Reports
  • For Our Alumni
  • For the Media
  • Health Services
  • Jobs & Employment
  • Privacy Statement
  • HEERF CARES/CRRSAA/ARP Act Reporting and Disclosure
  • Website Feedback
Kent State Home
© 2025 Kent State University All rights reserved.