Professional Bio

Bumba Mukherjee (Ph.D.; Columbia University, 2004) is a Professor at Penn State University. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professor at Florida State University, a visiting research scholar at Princeton University and NYU, and a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame. His research examines political violence, populism, and the relationship between civil conflict and development using lab-in-the-field experiments, alongside methodological work in spatial statistics, causal machine learning, and deep causal learning. His research has been published in several journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Mathematics, Political Analysis, R Journal and Studies in Comparative and International Development.

He is the author of numerous books including Globalization, Democracy and Trade Policy in the Developing World (University of Chicago Press), The Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships (with Vineeta Yadav, Cambridge University Press), The Politics of Mass Killing in Autocratic Regimes (with Ore Koren, Palgrave Macmillan), Principles of International Political Economy (with Jeff Kucik and Mark Hallerberg, Oxford University Press), The Rise of Right-Wing Populist Parties and Reversal of Economic Reforms (with Vineeta Yadav, Rowman & Littlefield), The IMF, Financial Crisis, and Repression of Human Rights (with Vineeta Yadav, Palgrave Macmillan). His other book projects include Varieties of Populism and the Future of Globalization (with Vineeta Yadav, Cambridge University Press), Economic Nationalism and Democracy in Uncertain Times (Edward Elgar Press), and Understanding International Political Economy (Edward Elgar Press).