Check out this article on the seven members of the inaugural MIT SHASS Faculty Fellows cohort, including Profs. Volha Charnysh and Richard Nielsen. lnkd.in/g3deit9e @vcharnysh.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social
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Prof. Bailey Flanigan develops complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive. news.mit.edu/2026/followi...
Prof. Kathleen Thelen's book Attention Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy has received APSA's Gladys M. Kammerer Award for best book in the field of U.S. national policy politicalsciencenow.com/congratulati... @kathleenthelen.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social
The overarching pattern we find is that if you compare people who live in compound houses to residents of other housing types...there is a pretty big difference in political actions,” says Prof. Noah Nathan. news.mit.edu/2026/how-arc... @nlnathan.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social
news.mit.edu/2026/summer-... MIT's Summer Reading list features books by Mariya Grinberg and Erik Lin-Greenberg! Check out Mariya's book, Trade in War: Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines and Erik's book, The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft!
Summer 2026 recommended reading from MIT
A summer reading list featuring books by MIT faculty and staff that were published from July 2025 to June 2026.
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Congratulations @adamberinsky.bsky.social who co-authored "Understanding and Combatting Misinformation Across 16 Countries on Six Continents." It won Best Publication from the Behavioral Science and Policy Association at their Annual Meeting last week. polisci.mit.edu/news/2026/ar...
Over two billion people lack access to safe water. Are democracies better at closing this massive gap? A substack on recently published research at World Development with Naomi Tilles on the limits of democracy for achieving universal safe water access globalcommons.substack.com/p/democracy-...
Democracy delivers the tap. But not always the safe water.
Roughly 2 billion people still lack reliable access to clean drinking water.
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At today's commencement reception, Prof. David Singer presented the Lucian Pye Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis to Yui Fung Raymond Wang. Congratulations to all our graduates! @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social
Congratulations to our Political Science PhDs! Front row: Suzanne Freeman, Wenyan Deng, Ye Zhang, and Diana “Tingxuan” Zhu. Back row: Sukrit Puri, Nicholas Blanchette, Eleanor Freund, Eyal Hanfling, Raymond Wang, and Wright Smith. @mit-cis.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social
“I have yet to meet a professor that cares more for their students.” Prof. Danny Hidalgo, who studies democracy and political behavior in Latin America, is honored as “Committed to Caring” for graduate student mentorship. news.mit.edu/2026/committ... @dhidalgo.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social
“I have yet to meet a professor that cares more for their students”
MIT Associate Professor Daniel Hidalgo, a political scientist who studies elections, democracy, and political behavior in Latin America, is honored as “Committed to Caring” for graduate student mentor...
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Congratulations to @kathleenthelen.bsky.social who has been named to the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows, which includes 223 trailblazing artists, scientists and scholars across 55 fields. www.gf.org/stories/anno... @mit-cis.bsky.social
PhD student Daniel Cebul has been selec to receive a Smith Richardson World Politics&Statecraft Fellowship for resrch on "The Logics of Ambiguity in International Crisis Bargaining: Signaling Strategies&Conflict Escalation." polisci.mit.edu/news/2026/ph... @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social
Check out this MIT SHASS Senior Profile of Political Science and Urban Planning dual major Lauren Higgins! shass.mit.edu/people/laure...
Lauren Higgins - MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
MIT senior Lauren Higgins is a double major in Political Science (Course 17) and Urban Planning (Course 11).
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SSP Director @fravel.bsky.social speaks with @npr.org about the recent Chinese military purges. 🎧Listen to full story www.npr.org/transcripts/...
“I would argue that there has been absolutely no regime change here. No institutions have been changed. It’s a leadership decapitation explicitly designed it seems to avoid regime change,” says @proftalmadge.bsky.social of US operations in Venezuela. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVGe...
What did the US achieve in the Venezuela operation?
YouTube video by Brookings Institution
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Eighteen MIT faculty have been honored as "Committed to Caring" for 2025-2027. Political Science Professor @dhidalgo.bsky.social is among them. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-fac... @mit-cis.bsky.social
How drones are altering contemporary warfare: a new book by Prof. Erik Lin-Greenberg examines the evolving dynamics of military and state action centered around drones. @mit-cis.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social news.mit.edu/2025/how-dro...
Prof. Mai Hassan was interviewed about recent violence in Darfur on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. Her interview begins at minute 33. @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...
Congratulatons to Prof. Richard J. Samuels! The United States Japan Foundation has named its dissertation award after you. polisci.mit.edu/news/2025/un... @rjsamuels.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social
NEW - Do More Disaggregated Electoral Results Deter Aggregation Fraud? - https://cup.org/3LBfv1G "...we found no evidence that greater transparency leads to substitution into other forms of electoral manipulation..." - Miguel R. Rueda, @guygrossman.bsky.social & Shuning Ge #OpenAccess
Students in our first year advising seminar take a break from discussing politics, policy, and political science at a field trip making bioplastics the MIT Museum. polisci.mit.edu/news/2025/fi...
"America’s federal retreat on the environment is very real. But the country is also unique in its private and organized capacity... Much of America is still trying to play its part in mitigating climate change." writes Evan Lieberman (@evlieb.bsky.social), director of CIS. ft.com/content/a3d9...
On climate, America is more than Washington
In spite of drastic federal rollbacks, numerous public and private actors remain committed to environmental causes
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We're pleased to highlight PhD candidate Anum Mustafa who is on the job market. Learn more about Anum at www.linkedin.com/in/anum-must...
We're pleased to highlight PhD candidate Wright Smith who is on the job market. Learn more about Wright Smith at wrightlsmith.com @wrightlsmith.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social
Sudan is What Happens When you Recognize a Junta A guest essay co-authored by Professor Mai Hassan appeared in yesterday's New York Times. nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o... @mit-cis.bsky.social
Opinion | Sudan Is What Happens When You Recognize a Junta
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Why countries trade with each other while fighting: Mariya Grinberg’s new book, “Trade in War," examines the curious phenomenon of economic trade during military conflict. news.mit.edu/2025/why-cou... @mit-cis.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social
We are pleased to highlight PhD candidate Suzanne Freeman who is on the job market. Learn more about Suzanne in this MIT News profile and at this website. news.mit.edu/2025/shadow-... american.edu/sis/faculty/... @mit-cis.bsky.social @ssp-mit.bsky.social
We're pleased to highlight PhD candidate Benjamin Norwood Harris who is on the job market. Learn more about Benjamin Norwood Harris at www.benjaminnorwoodharris.com ! @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social
We're pleased to highlight PhD candidate Ye Zhang who is on the job market. Learn more about Ye Zhang at iriszhangye.com! @ssp-mit.bsky.social @mit-cis.bsky.social
“…American foreign policy could better serve our country & the world w/ an approach that harnesses the power of national pride while valuing a global playing field,” writes @evlieb.bsky.social in today’s NYT. @mit.edu @mit-cis.bsky.social @evlieb.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...
Opinion | America Firsters Need to Take Tennis Lessons
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