Maryhen Jiménez is an Assistant Professor in Politics at Maynooth University (incoming). Her research interests include authoritarian politics, repression, opposition movements, exiled politics, and democratic resistance, with regional interests in Latin America. She has also research and teaching interests in qualitative and mixed methods research methodology. Her research has been published in the Journal of Democracy, Political Studies, Cambridge University Press, among others. She has received multiple awards and fellowships in support of her research, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, a Fritz Thyssen Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and several awards from the Cusanuswerk Foundation. Likewise, Jiménez has been a visiting researcher at Princeton University and CIDE, German Institute for Global and Area Studies, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica, and the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch in Washington, and the Wilson Center.

• Jiménez, Maryhen, Pérez-Sandoval, Javier & Timothy J Power (2026). How Global Illiberalism Damages Democracy, Journal of Democracy 
• Verónica, Zubillaga, Jiménez Maryhen, & Vicente Lecuna (2026). No todo es devastación: la creatividad de urgencia de la comunidad académica venezolana en tiempos de autocratización, LASA Forum​, 57:1
• Draege, J & Jiménez, M (joint lead authorship). (2025). Divided Opposition: Resource Asymmetry, Elections, and Protests in Electoral Autocracies. Political Studies.