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.
Ambar taught for 18 years in New York and New Jersey public schools. In 2008, he received a PhD from Rutgers University.
In 2024, Ambar became an Associate Producer of the forthcoming film, Sagittaria, written and directed by Zach Busch.
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- Murder on the Mississippi: The Shocking Crimes That Shaped Abraham Lincoln
- Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era
- Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama
- American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism
- How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency
- ''Reconsidering American Political Thought''