Susan Alberts

Dr. Susan Alberts "is a former U.S. foreign service officer, whose career has included postings in Bombay, India and Washington, D.C. She has extensive experience in government relations and legislative affairs, having served as director of government affairs at the National Association of Arab Americans, as communications director for Senator Tom Harkin and as assistant director of the Hubert Humphrey Fellows Program at American University. An emerging expert in constitutionalism who recently obtained her Ph.D. in government from Georgetown University, Dr. Alberts presented her paper, “Subjecting Power to Rules: Constitutionalism in New Democracies in Latin America,” at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association and has published articles in Comparative Politics and Democratization. During her fellowship, Dr. Alberts worked on a book project examining constitutionalism and democratic survival."


 * 2007–2008 Visiting Fellows, NED Past Fellows