Evan S. Lieberman

Evan S. Lieberman is the director of the Center for International Studies (CIS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa, and the faculty director for the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) and the Global Diversity Lab (GDL). Lieberman is an E-GAP network member, a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) fellow, and co-coordinator of the Boston-area Working Group on African Political-Economy (BWGAPE).

Lieberman received his BA in political science from Princeton University and his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

From 1997 to 1998 he was a Fulbright fellow in South Africa, and from 2000 to 2002 he was a Robert Wood Johnson health policy scholar at Yale University. Lieberman has received the David Collier Mid-Career Award, the Giovanni Sartori book prize, the Mattei Dogan book prize, and the 2002 Mary Parker Follett article award.