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Adam Berinsky

Mitsui Professor of Political Science

Director, MIT Political Experiments Research Lab (PERL)

Survey research; political methodology; political behavior; public opinion; American politics; political rumors; misinformation; survey methodology; experimental research.

Devin Caughey

Class of 1949 Professor of Political Science

Director, Graduate Studies

American political development; Southern politics; representation; political parties; Congress; state politics; latent-variable models; survey weighting; regression-discontinuity designs; permutation inference.

Volha Charnysh

Ford Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science

Legacies of violence; political economy; political behavior; Eastern Europe; Holocaust; WWII; ethnic politics; authoritarianism; politics and history; migration.

Fotini Christia

Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences

Director, MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Director, MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC)

Civil wars; political violence; identity politics; post-conflict reconstruction; field experiments; big data; Middle East.

Bailey Flanigan

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Computer Science

Formal methods, sampling methods, deliberation and deliberative democracy, public opinion measurement and preference elicitation, and design of democratic processes (e.g., voting systems, participatory budgeting, deliberative mini-publics, democratic inputs to algorithms, etc.). My core methods include algorithms, learning theory, statistics and probability, machine learning, social choice theory, and survey research.

M. Taylor Fravel

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science

Director, MIT Security Studies Program

International relations; international security; military strategy; nuclear strategy; territorial disputes; maritime disputes; China; East Asia

Mai Hassan

Associate Professor of Political Science

Comparative politics; bureaucracy; public administration; the state; contentious politics; state repression; African Politics; Middle East and North African Politics.

In Song Kim

Associate Professor of Political Science

Political methodology; international trade; political economy; big data; machine learning; game theory; lobbying; lobbyview; visualization; dimension reduction.

Evan Lieberman

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.

Vipin Narang

Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science

Director, Center for Nuclear Security Policy

Nuclear; nuclear proliferation; nuclear strategy; south Asia; international relations; international security.

Noah Nathan

Associate Professor of Political Science

Political economy of development; comparative political behavior; urban politics; state-building; distributive politics and clientelism; political parties; Africa.

Ben Ross Schneider

Ford International Professor of Political Science

Director, MIT Chile Program

Business politics; political economy; education politics; industrial policy; business groups; comparative capitalism; social policy; Latin America; Brazil.

Caitlin Talmadge

Raphael Dorman-Helen Starbuck Associate Professor of Political Science

Nuclear deterrence and escalation; U.S. military operations and strategy; security issues in Asia and the Persian Gulf.

Lily L. Tsai

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.

Bernardo Zacka

Class of 1943 Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science

Contemporary political theory; bureaucracy; ethnographic methods; architecture and politics; 20th century European political thought.