Political Economy and Development Social Science Experts in Institutions and Policies: Political Economy and Development Heading link Copy link Dr. Laura Junker | Anthropology political economy and political ecology of pre-modern chiefdoms and states methods: archaeological data (survey and excavations) and historical research (classic chronicles and archival documents) Dr. Kareem Rabie | Anthropology privatization, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank methods: urban ethnography Dr. Cindy Tekobbe | Communication the digital lives, identities, and activism practices of traditionally underserved and erased peoples and communities Dr. So Yoon Ahn | Economics labor economics, family economics, applied microeconomics, development economics, gender economics Dr. Benjamin Feignberg | Economics development economics, labor economics Dr. Joe Persky | Economics urban and regional economics; history of thought; public finance; radical political economy Dr. Javaeria Qureshi | Economics education, labor, and development Dr. Cedric Johnson | Political Science African American political thought, neoliberal politics, and class analysis and race Dr. Yue Zhang | Political Science comparative and urban politics, with a focus on political economy of development, urbanization in the Global South, metropolitan and urban governance Dr. Andy Clarno | Sociology racism, capitalism, colonialism, policing, comparative racial formation, political sociology Dr. Atef Said | Sociology politics, revolutions, and social change, spatio-temporalities of revolution methods: ethnographic and historical data assessment Dr. Mahesh Somashekhar | Sociology how urban economic development and social inequality affect one another methods: methods from demography, econometrics, geography, and data science