Anita Isaacs

Anita Isaacs is a Canadian political scientist. She is the Benjamin R. Collins Professor of Social Sciences and professor of political science at Haverford College. She studies democracy, democratization, and democratic transitions, with a focus on peace building in Latin America and particularly in Ecuador and Guatemala.

Early life and education Isaacs is from Montreal, Canada. She attended McGill University, where she earned a BA in political science in 1980. In 1982 she graduated from Oxford University with an M.Phil. in Latin American studies. Isaacs's research also concerns Mexico, and Central America more broadly. She has a particular expertise in the politics of migration and refugees. where she was one of the primary subjects of an episode of The Daily in May 2020 Other outlets that have interviewed or cited Isaacs include Time, Vox, and The Christian Science Monitor. Isaacs has also published frequently in news media outlets, including multiple articles in The New York Times, and in The Washington Post.

From 2000 to 2003, Isaacs was Director of the Haverford Center for Peace and Global Citizenship.

Isaacs is a past winner of the American Political Science Association's Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching.