Wendy R. Pearlman (born 1974)[1] is an American historian and political scientist of the Middle East.

[2] Pearlman graduated from Brown University magna cum laude in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in history.

[3][4] In 1996 and 1997, Pearlman completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Madrid, where she researched North African migrant communities.

[2] Pearlman has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Perspectives on Politics since June 2023.

Pearlman was raised in the Chicago suburbs and Lincoln, Nebraska in "a non-religious, secular but Jewish household.