I’m Aidan Milliff. I am a political scientist at Florida State University. My research focuses on the cognitive, emotional, and social forces that shape political violence, forced migration, post-violence politics, and the politics of South Asia.
I earned a PhD in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2022. At MIT, I was affiliated with the MIT Security Studies Program and Harvard’s Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute. Before MIT, I was a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. I was born and raised in Colorado.
PhD, Political Science, 2022
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AM, International Relations, 2015
The University of Chicago
AB, Political Science, 2015
The University of Chicago
February 2023 An article from my book project was selected for the 2023 Best Paper Award by the APSA Conflict Processes Section.
December 2022 Op-Ed (with Paul Staniland) in the Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog: What Indians think about China, and the border clashes.
INR 2002 - Introduction to International Relations (Fall 2023)
CPO 4057 - Political Violence (Fall 2023)
MIT Political Methodology Lab Workshop: Introduction to Text Analysis (co-Instructor, Spring 2021)
17.269 - Race, Ethnicity, and American Politics (Grader, Fall 2019)
17.473 - The Politics of WMD Proliferation (Grader, Spring 2019)
17.800 - Quantitative Research Methods I (TA, Fall 2018)
J-PAL Executive Education: Evaluating Social Programs (TA, Summer 2017)