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.
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 My Job Market Paper was selected for the 2022 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.
October 2022 I’m excited to join the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford as a 2022-3 Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Asia
April 2022 My article on data security practices for human subjects research is now live in the new issue of Qualitative and Multi-Method Research
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)