Saladin Ambar

Saladin Ambar is an American political scientist. He is a professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, and is a Senior Scholar at the Eagleton Center on the American Governor.

Ambar taught for 18 years in New York and New Jersey public schools. In 2008, he received a PhD from Rutgers University.

Books

 * Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Oxford University Press, 2014)
 * Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama (Oxford University Press, 2022)
 * Governors and the Crises that Define Them (Rutgers University Press) with John Farmer, Kristoffer Shields, and John Weingart
 * American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2017)
 * How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
 * Reconsidering American Political Thought (Routledge, 2019)