Mr. Bufano is a lecturer in Middle East politics, international relations, comparative politics, American political science. He is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alabama, and will graduate in the spring of 2023. Mr. Bufano is currently conducting research on racial identity politics, migrations, and transnational activism in North Africa, and recently completed field research in Tunisia with funding from the Project on Middle East Political Science and the Graduate School at the University of Alabama. He has published works on anti-establishment and authoritarian attitudes in the country, and has also conducted research at the American University in Cairo where he earned his master’s degree in political science and a certificate of proficiency in Arabic.