Meredith Weiss is Professor of Political Science in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY) and inaugural Director of the SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium. She holds an MA and PhD in Political Science from Yale University and BA in Political Science, Policy Studies, and English from Rice University. Her work addresses social mobilization, civil society, and collective identity; electoral politics and parties; institutional reform; and subnational governance in Southeast Asia. Her most recent books, The Roots of Resilience: Political Machines and Grassroots Politics in Southeast Asia (Cornell and NUS, 2020), and the co-authored Money & Machines: Mobilizing for Elections in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, 2022) draw on extensive fieldwork in the region. She is the author of two earlier books and several dozen journal articles and book chapters, and editor/co-editor of twelve volumes. Her principal current projects, solo and collaborative, address Southeast Asian local governance and public-goods delivery, civil society and youth activism in Asia, and Malaysian sociopolitical development and institutional reform. She co-edits the Cambridge Elements series on Politics & Society in Southeast Asia.

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