Haroon Ullah

Haroon K. Ullah is an American author, educator, scholar, diplomat, and researcher who focuses on South Asia and the Middle East, often Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has conducted field research in many places, including Pakistan, where he studied the roots of Islamic extremism and conducted field experiments, interviewed party activists, and gauged opinions.

Ullah was raised in a farming area in Washington.

Ullah graduated from Whitman College in 1999 with a bachelor of arts degree in politics. He earned a master's degree in 2002 at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Thereafter Ullah earned a joint PhD in political science and public policy from University of Michigan.

While earning his doctorate from the University of Michigan, Ullah was a Senior Research Fellow at its Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs for The Dubai Initiative (2007-2009). He was part of the US Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff, working with US Ambassador Richard Holbrooke on policy regarding Pakistan and Afghanistan.

He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Center for Security Studies of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service

• William J. Fulbright Fellow
• Harvard University Presidential Scholar
• National Security Education Program Fellow
• Woodrow Wilson Public Service Fellow

• Vying for Allah’s Vote: Understanding Islamic Parties, Political Violence, and Extremism in Pakistan (2013), Georgetown University Press, ISBN 9781626160163
• The Bargain From The Bazaar: A Family's Day of Reckoning in Lahore (2014), PublicAffairs, ISBN 9781610391672
• Digital Rebels: Islamists, Social Media and the New Democracy (2018), Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300207187