Wendy Pearlman

Wendy R. Pearlman is an American historian and political scientist of the Middle East. She is the Jane Long Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University where she has taught since 2008.

Education and career Pearlman graduated from Brown University magna cum laude in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in history. During her junior year at Brown, Pearlman studied abroad in Morocco, where she began studying Arabic. In 1996 and 1997, Pearlman completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Madrid, where she researched North African migrant communities. She attended Lincoln Southeast High School, graduating in 1992.