Suzanne Berger
Institute Professor
Political economy; comparative politics; globalization; innovation; production; European politics; French politics.
Institute Professor
Political economy; comparative politics; globalization; innovation; production; European politics; French politics.
Mitsui Professor of Political Science
Director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab (PERL)
Survey research; political methodology; political behavior; public opinion; American politics; political rumors; misinformation; survey methodology; experimental research.
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science
American politics; public opinion; political behavior; inequality; policy feedbacks; social policy; health policy; tax policy.
Professor of Political Science
American political development; Southern politics; representation; political parties; Congress; state politics; latent-variable models; survey weighting; regression-discontinuity designs; permutation inference.
Ford Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science
Office Hours by appointment
Legacies of violence; political economy; political behavior; Eastern Europe; Holocaust; WWII; ethnic politics; authoritarianism; politics and history; migration.
Professor of Political Science
International relations; cybersecurity; international conflict; cyberpolitics; global accord; sustainable development; cyberwar.
Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences
Director, MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC)
Civil wars; political violence; identity politics; post-conflict reconstruction; field experiments; big data; Middle East.
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science
Director of the MIT Security Studies Program
International relations; international security; military strategy; military doctrine; nuclear weapons; nuclear strategy; territorial disputes; maritime disputes; China; East Asia.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
International relations theory; international security; political economy of security; wartime trade; order formation; sovereignty; state decline.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Comparative politics; bureaucracy; public administration; the state; contentious politics; state repression; African Politics; Middle East and North African Politics.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Latin America; political institutions; representation; accountability; clientelism; causal inference; elections.
Professor of Political Science Emeritus
Associate Professor of Political Science
Political methodology; international trade; political economy; big data; machine learning; game theory; lobbying; lobbyview; visualization; dimension reduction.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Homeland security; Mexico; leadership; voting; media; political communication.
Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa
Director, Center for International Studies
Political economy of development; ethnicity/identity; public policy; research methods; accountability; governance; democracy; state-building; Africa.
Leo Marx Career Development Assistant Professor of the History and Culture of Science & Technology
Emerging technology, crisis escalation, and security strategy.
Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science
Nuclear; nuclear proliferation; nuclear strategy; south Asia; international relations; international security.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Political economy of development; comparative political behavior; urban politics; state-building; distributive politics and clientelism; political parties; Africa.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Islam; terrorism; security studies; foreign aid; international law; international political economy; development; statistics.
Comparative Politics; identity; transitional / retrospective justice; violence; Brazil; US South.
Professor of Political Science
Professor of Data Systems and Society
Director of the Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET)
International relations; science and technology policy; risk governance; biotechnology; information technology.
Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science
Civil war; violence; war; conflict; Iraq; social science; emotions.
David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus
Economics; international affairs; labor market; technology; industrial organization; social and political mobilization.
Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT
Security studies; international relations; international security; military strategy; restraint; nuclear studies; military doctrine.
Ford International Professor of Political Science
Japanese politics; Asian security; Grand Strategy; Political Leadership.
Professor of Public Policy and Organization, Emeritus
Public policy; security studies program; policy outcomes; institutional structure.
Business politics; political economy; education politics; industrial policy; business groups; comparative capitalism; social policy; Latin America; Brazil.
International political economy; financial crises; migration; exchange rate politics; central banking; regulation
Professor of Political Science Emeritus
Science policy; public policy; technology; international affairs; proliferation; climate change.
Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Elections; Congress; American politics.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Nuclear deterrence and escalation; U.S. military operations and strategy; security issues in Asia and the Persian Gulf.
Ford Professor of Political Science
Political economy; historical institutionalism; labor politics; social policy; advanced industrial countries.
Ford Professor of Political Science
Political behavior of development; political economy of development; state-society relations; governance; corruption; accountability; political participation; citizen engagement; Chinese politics; African politics.
Professor of Political Science Emeritus
International relations; war; foreign policy; security policy; US intervention.
Associate Professor of Political Science
American politics; political behavior; voting; race/ethnicity.
Professor of Political Science
Political methodology; applied statistics; causal inference; survey methodology; experimental design; political behavior.
Class of 1943 Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science
Contemporary political theory; bureaucracy; ethnographic methods; architecture and politics; 20th century European political thought.