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, the political effects of trauma, 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
at MIT
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)