Yasmina Abouzzohour is a Research Scholar and Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University. She previously held roles as an Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton's Institute for the Transregional Study and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University's Middle East Initiative. She earned her Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Oxford and her B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University.

Abouzzohour is a comparative political scientist specializing in trust in the military and military-society relations across regime types. Her research leverages public opinion data, cross-national datasets, and primary sources to delve into the interplay between societal trust, state policies, and the armed forces in non-democratic contexts. A scholar of North Africa, she also explores broader state-society relations by analyzing shifts in public attitudes. At Princeton, she has taught courses on the political and economic development of the Middle East and North Africa. 

Her ongoing projects investigate the determinants of high public trust in the military in non-democratic contexts and examine public perceptions of tax reforms in rentier states using survey and social media data. Her current book project, Why Does God Save the King? How Monarchies Endure and Evolve in the Middle East and North Africa, examines the resilience and adaptability of monarchical institutions through a range of methods.

Her research has received support from the American Political Science Association, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Andrew Mellon Fund, the University of Oxford, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, the Project on Middle East Political Science, Harvard University, and Princeton University, among others.