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Meet the Faculty

Meet the faculty tackling issues in today’s complex economic environment.

Department Chair

Research interests

  • Comparative democratization
  • Political and economic institutions
  • Authoritarianism in Africa

Department Director of Graduate Studies

Research interests

  • Global integration on local labor markets
  • Information transfer in trade 
  • Labor institutions

Core Faculty

Research interests

  • Applied microeconomics
  • Global economic history
  • Market integration in Japan and China

Research interests

  • Environmental economics
  • International trade
  • Effects of environmental regulation

Research interests

  • Global information technology and policy  

  • Sociotechnical infrastructure

  • Computational text mining 

Keith Darden Associate Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics

Research interests

  • Politics of Eurasia
  • National loyalties and state-building
  • Insurgency

Research interests

  • Democratic accountability
  • Quantitative statistical methods
  • Data analysis in IR

Research interests

  • Politics of economic policymaking
  • International regime complexity
  • Comparative political economy

Research interests

  • Applied economic research
  • Global economy and trade
  • Comparative economic systems 

Research interests

  • Time series econometrics
  • Monetary and fiscal policies
  • Analysis of economic survey data

Research interests

  • Development economics
  • Natural resource management issues
  • Applied micro-econometric

Affiliated Faculty