I’m Aidan Milliff. I am a Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. My research combines computational social science methods and qualitative tools to answer questions about 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.