Aidan Milliff is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an affiliate of the MIT Security Studies Program and the Harvard Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, and was a 2016-7 MIT Presidential Fellow. His work focuses on political violence, emotions and decision making in violence, migration, and South Asian politics.
Before MIT, Aidan was a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he worked on projects studying nuclear deterrence in South Asia, the military balance in South Asia, and domestic state capacity and governance in India.
AM, International Relations, 2015
The University of Chicago
AB, Political Science, 2015
The University of Chicago
Apr 2021 I talked with Ora Szekely and Peter Krause about ethical research during COVID-19 on their podcast Stories from the Field
Feb 2021 Check out this article about my work from MIT!
Feb 2021 Washington Post Op-Ed with Saksham Khosla: India’s Farm Protests Turned Violent Last Week: But Why are Farmers Protesting in the First Place?
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)