Dustin Tingley is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy with a joint appointment in the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy and the Department of Government. Dustin is Deputy Vice Provost for Advances in Learning.
His research includes the politics of climate change, international relations, American foreign policy, data science, and education. Recent projects include attitudes towards global climate technologies and policies, low carbon community transitions, and the intersection of causal inference and machine learning methods for the social sciences. He serves in several university-level administrative roles related to charting out and implementing the future teaching and learning.
His book on American foreign policy with Helen Milner, Sailing the Water’s Edge, was published in fall 2015, and was awarded the Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book published in the field of U.S. national policy. His newest book with Alex Gazmararian, Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. The book features the voices of those on the front lines of the energy transition — a commissioner in Carbon County deciding whether to welcome wind, executives at energy companies searching for solutions, mayors and unions in Minnesota battling for local jobs, and fairgoers in coal country navigating their community’s uncertain future.
He received a PhD in Politics from Princeton, a BA from the University of Rochester, and is a former high school teacher.
Contact
dtingley@gov.harvard.edu
617/496-3590
1737 Cambridge Street
CGIS Knafel Building, Room 212
Subfields
American Politics | Comparative Politics | International Relations | Methods and Formal Theory
Academic Interests
Data Science and Political Methodology | Environmental policy | Foreign Policy | Political Economy & Development | Political Psychology | Public Opinion | Public Policy
Research Methods
Experiments | Formal Theory | Quantitative Methods | Surveys
Geographic Regions of Study
Latin America | United States