Dr. Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre
Assistant Professor (CV)
Department of Historical
and Political Studies (Website)
deloffrem@arcadia.edu
Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre, Ph.D., earned a B.A. in political science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an M.A. in International Relations from the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris-Fondation Nationale de Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po), and her Ph.D. in Political Science from The George Washington University in 2011. She now serves as both an Assistant Professor of Historical and Political Sciences and as Assistant Director of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program.
Her research interests include global governance, international organization, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), organization theory, international ethics, humanitarianism and human rights.
Deloffre is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the emergence and development of transnational self-regulatory NGO accountability institutions, such as the Sphere Project, Humanitarian Accountability Partnership-International and COMPAS Qualité. Deloffre has studied and worked abroad in France and the United Kingdom and has interned for NGOs such as Oxfam-UK and Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) in France.
Recent Publication
- Deloffre, M. Z. (2010) “NGO Accountability Clubs in the Humanitarian Sector: Social Dimensions of Club Emergence and Design” In Mary Kay Gugerty and Aseem Prakash (eds.) Nonprofit Clubs: Voluntary Regulation of Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organizations. Cambridge University Press.
