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. ^[1]

Ambar taught for 18 years in New York and New Jersey public schools. In 2008, he received a PhD from Rutgers University. ^[2]

In 2024, Ambar became an Associate Producer of the forthcoming film, Sagittaria, written and directed by Zach Busch. ^[3]

Books

In 2023, Ambar won the PROSE Book Award in Government and Politics from the Association of American Publishers for his Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship From Jefferson to Obama (Oxford University Press 2022) https://proseawards.com/winners/2023-award-winners/

• Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln (Diversion Books, 2025) ^[4]
• Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Oxford University Press, 2014) ^{[5] [6] [7]}
• Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama (Oxford University Press, 2022) ^[8]
• American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2017) ^[9]
• How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
• Reconsidering American Political Thought (Routledge, 2019)

References

1. "Eagleton Faculty, Staff and Visiting Associates: Saladin Ambar". eagleton.rutgers.edu. Rutgers University. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
2. "Saladin Ambar". bas.georgetown.edu. Georgetown University. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
3. "Saladin Ambar" . Retrieved January 26, 2025.
4. https://www.publishersweekly.com/9798895150214
5. Germain, Felix (Winter 2014). "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" . Political Science Quarterly. 129 (4): 736–738. doi:10.1002/polq.12265.
6. Corrigan, Lisa (November 30, 2016). "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era by Saladin Ambar (review)" . Rhetoric & Public Affairs. 19 (1): 147–150. doi:10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0147 – via Project MUSE.
7. "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era by Saladin Ambar". Publishers Weekly.
8. "Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama by Saladin Ambar". Publishers Weekly.
9. Hawley, Michael (September 30, 2018). "Saladin Ambar. American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. ix+224. $29.95" . American Political Thought. 7 (4): 683–687. doi:10.1086/699862. S2CID   159407437 – via CrossRef.