Jeremy Weinstein is Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and an affiliate of the Department of Government.
Weinstein is an award-winning researcher and teacher with expertise on civil wars and political violence; ethnic politics; the political economy of development; democracy and accountability; and migration. He is the author of Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence, co-author of Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action, and co-editor of Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing. In recent years, he has also written on issues at the intersection of technology and democracy, including in a co-authored book System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.
Before coming to Harvard, he was the Kleinheinz Professor of International Studies at Stanford University, where he led major initiatives, including Stanford Impact Labs and the Immigration Policy Lab. Weinstein has also held senior roles in the U.S. government at the White House and State Department, most recently as Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during President Obama’s second term. Weinstein holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MA and PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University.
Contact
jeremy_weinstein@hks.harvard.edu
617-495-1122
Harvard Kennedy School
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Subfields
Comparative Politics | International Relations
Academic Interests
Data science and Political Methodology | Democracy | Foreign Policy | Human Rights | International Organizations | Migration | Political Economy & Development | Public Policy | Race & Ethnicity | Security Studies | Technology & Governance
Research Methods
Experiments | Qualitative Methods | Quantitative Methods
Geographic Regions of Study
Africa | Middle East and North Africa