Bio

Erik H. Wang is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Political and Social Change. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) . He received his PhD in Politics from Princeton University in 2020. His research interests center on bureaucracy, politics of state-building, and historical political economy. He also does research on statistical methods of causal inference. His work has appeared in American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Research and Politics, among others.