Professor Donghyun Danny Choi from Brown University joined the Global Diversity Lab for Fall 2025. During his visit, he presented a paper titled Legislating with Women: How Gender Composition Affects Issue Advocacy, in which he examined whether greater descriptive representation of women leads to increased substantive attention to women’s concerns within legislative bodies.

Please join the Global Diversity Lab in congratulating our graduate fellow Sukrit Puri on his new position as Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School.

Please join the Global Diversity Lab in congratulating our graduate fellows on their new academic positions! Political Science PhD candidate Elizabeth Parker-Magyar will be an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University beginning in July 2025. She will spend the 2024-2025 academic year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard. Political…

Darien Brown worked on climate-related research in the summer of 2020, as a visiting RA to MIT’s Global Diversity Lab from Tuskegee University. Following his employment with the Global Diversity Lab, Darien went on to work for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Securities Administration conducting research on nuclear relations and climate change. Darien is currently a 2L at Vanderbilt…

In the summer of 2024, the Global Diversity Lab (GDL) at MIT’s Department of Political Science will be hosting undergraduate summer research interns as part of MIT’s Summer Research Program.  Interns will split their time between participating as Research Assistants on the lab’s research projects and working on their own research project (e.g., initial work for a senior thesis) under…

GDL Faculty Affiliate Volha Charnysh will present an ongoing project, “Dispute Resolution in Heterogeneous Societies” (with Paige Bollen), at the Berkeley Comparative Politics Colloquium on November 18, 2021. The abstract for the project is featured below: In the developing world, state courts coexist with customary legal orders. How do individuals choose between these competing forms…

And that’s a wrap! The Global Diversity Lab just completed the first full year of its Research Assistant program. By bringing in talented undergraduates from around the United States and the world, we aim to foster the next generation of promising scholars and simultaneously harness the full value of diversity. Many thanks to all of…

The Global Diversity Lab, in collaboration with MIT’s Space Enabled Group and Sustainable Urbanization Lab, submitted a White Paper proposal to the MIT Climate Grand Challenge. The work focused on measuring and addressing inequality in climate adaptation in coastal urban centers. Working with our colleagues was a great experience and we’re excited to see the results!