Shamiran Mako is an assistant professor of international relations and political science at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Her research focuses on the international relations and comparative politics of the Middle East with a substantive emphasis on ethnic politics, institutions and power-sharing, post-conflict statebuilding, and governance in divided societies. She is the author of Structuring Exclusion: Institutions, Grievances, and Ethnic State Capture in Iraq with Oxford University Press, 2025 and After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Valentine Moghadam (Cambridge University Press, 2021).