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Adam Berinsky

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.

Devin Caughey

Class of 1949 Professor of Political Science

Director of 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.

M. Taylor Fravel

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science

Director of the MIT Security Studies Program

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

Mariya Grinberg

Assistant Professor of Political Science

International relations theory; international security; political economy of security; wartime trade; order formation; sovereignty; state decline.

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.

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.

Barry R. Posen

Ford International Professor of Political Science

Security studies; international relations; international security; military strategy; restraint; nuclear studies; military doctrine.

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.