Evan Lieberman is the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa and Director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He conducts research on the political-economy of development, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. He directs the Global Diversity Lab (GDL) and MIT’s global experiential learning program, MISTI. Lieberman co-coordinates the Boston-Area Working Group on African Political-Economy (BWGAPE), is a member of the E-GAP network and its steering committee on climate governance and is a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). Lieberman received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Lieberman is the author of Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid (Princeton University Press, 2022), Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS (Princeton University Press, 2009) and Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Journal of Democracy, and World Development. He is the recipient of the David Collier Mid-Career Award, the Giovanni Sartori Book prize, the Mattei Dogan book prize, and the 2002 Mary Parker Follett article award. He was a Fulbright fellow in South Africa in 1997-98, and a Robert Wood Johnson health policy scholar at Yale University in 2000-02. Previously, he was Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Politics at Princeton University (2002-14)
