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Nickie Mpofu '24 interned with Semiconductor Technologies Limited (STL), a Kenyan startup focused on semiconductor manufacturing in the summer of 2024.

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MEng graduate Amulya Aluru interned at Jean Piaget University of Cabo Verde in the fall of 2024, where she worked on a project centered around understanding what factors impact vector borne disease, from climate change to nutrition.

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Vin's internship at Startgate, a startup incubator in Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco, focused on enhancing internal operations and promoting data-driven decision-making.

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Papa, Mihaela, and Evan S. Lieberman. “Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges.” MIT Center for International Studies, Post-Workshop Report (April 2025).

April 2025

Paper

Hassan, Mai, Horacio Larreguy, and Stuart Russell. “Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism.” The American Political Science Review 118, no. 4 (2024): 1913–30.

January 2024

Book

Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs

Stanford University Press

2023

Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs

Paper

Hassan, Mai, and Ahmed Kodouda. “Dismantling Old or Forging New Clientelistic Ties? Sudan’s Civil Service Reform after Uprising.” World Development 169 (2023): 106-232.

September 2023

Paper

Hassan, Mai. “Coordinated Dis-Coordination.” The American Political Science Review 118, no. 1 (2024): 163–77.

May 2023

Paper

Hassan, Mai, and Kathleen Klaus. “Closing The Gap: The Politics of Property Rights in Kenya.” World Politics 75, no. 2 (2023): 233–79.

April 2023

Paper

Adamson, Fiona B, and Kelly M Greenhill. “Deal-Making, Diplomacy and Transactional Forced Migration.” International Affairs (London) 99, no. 2 (2023): 707–25.

March 2023

Book

The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland

Cambridge University Press

2023

The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland

Book

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid

Princeton University Press

2022

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid

Paper

Hassan, Mai, Daniel Mattingly, and Elizabeth R Nugent. “Political Control.” Annual Review of Political Science 25, no. 1 (2022): 155–74.

May 2022

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CIS awards 20 PhD research grants

Philip Khoury to step down as vice provost for the arts

MIT without borders

Sudan is unraveling

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Papa, Mihaela, and Evan S. Lieberman. “Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges.” MIT Center for International Studies, Post-Workshop Report (April 2025).

Hassan, Mai, Horacio Larreguy, and Stuart Russell. “Who Gets Hired? Political Patronage and Bureaucratic Favoritism.” The American Political Science Review 118, no. 4 (2024): 1913–30.

Death Dust: The Rise, Decline, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs

Hassan, Mai, and Ahmed Kodouda. “Dismantling Old or Forging New Clientelistic Ties? Sudan’s Civil Service Reform after Uprising.” World Development 169 (2023): 106-232.

Hassan, Mai. “Coordinated Dis-Coordination.” The American Political Science Review 118, no. 1 (2024): 163–77.

Hassan, Mai, and Kathleen Klaus. “Closing The Gap: The Politics of Property Rights in Kenya.” World Politics 75, no. 2 (2023): 233–79.

Adamson, Fiona B, and Kelly M Greenhill. “Deal-Making, Diplomacy and Transactional Forced Migration.” International Affairs (London) 99, no. 2 (2023): 707–25.

The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland

Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid

Hassan, Mai, Daniel Mattingly, and Elizabeth R Nugent. “Political Control.” Annual Review of Political Science 25, no. 1 (2022): 155–74.