Areas of Interest:

• Political Economy and Comparative
• Politics Economic and Political Development

Education:

• Ph.D., Yale University, 1993
• M.A., University of Warwick, 1986
• B.Sc., Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1982

Experience:

• Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies, since July 1, 2016
• Professor, University of Chicago - present
• Professor of Government, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Jul.2004- Jun 2015
• Associate Professor of Political Science and Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Jul. 2001 - Jun 2004
• Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, Jul. 1999 - Jul. 2001

Latest Publications:

• The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies and the Fate of Liberty (with Daron Acemoglu, MIT) (2019) New York: Penguin.
• “The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization.” (joint with Daron Acemoglu, MIT and Ragnar Torvik, Trondheim), NBER Working Paper #22250, forthcoming in Journal of Comparative Economics.
• “Social Structure and Conflict in Africa,” (joint with Jacob Moscona and Nathan Nunn, Harvard University), NBER Working Paper # 24209, forthcoming in Econometrica.