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Thad Dunning is Assistant Professor of Political Science, a research fellow at Yale's Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the International Studies major. His current research focuses on the influence of natural resource wealth on political regimes; other recent articles investigate the influence of foreign aid on democratization and the role of information technology in economic development. He conducts field research in Latin America and has written on a range of methodological topics, including econometric corrections for selection effects and the use of natural experiments in the social sciences. Dunning’s previous work has appeared in International Organization, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Studies in Comparative International Development, Geopolitics and in a forthcoming Handbook of Methodology (Sage Publications). He received a Ph.D. degree in political science and an M.A. degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. from Stanford University, and a B.A. from Brown University.

Campus address: 8 Prospect Place, Room 137
Phone: 432-6063
Email: thad.dunning@yale.edu