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] He appears in the 2026 documentary film, Mario, about the life of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, directed by Peter, George, and Teddy Kunhardt. The film premiered at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival.[4]

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)[5]

  • Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln (Diversion Books, 2025)[6]
  • Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Oxford University Press, 2014)[7][8][9]
  • Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama (Oxford University Press, 2022)[10]
  • American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 2017)[11]
  • 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. ↑ "Mario | 2026 Tribeca Festival". Tribeca. Retrieved 2026-05-28.
  5. ↑ 2023 Winners: R.R. Hawkins Award
  6. ↑ Murder on the Mississippi
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era by Saladin Ambar". Publishers Weekly.
  10. ↑ "Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama by Saladin Ambar". Publishers Weekly.
  11. ↑ 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.
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