Chagai M. Weiss

Chagai M. Weiss is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Charles and Andrea Bronfman Chair in Israel Studies, cross-appointed with the Center for Jewish Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was a Middle East Initiative predoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. Chagai’s research, which focuses on the political effects and institutional remedies of conflict and polarization, has been published or is forthcoming in various outlets, outlets such as Cambridge University Press, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The American Journal of Political Science, The American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and The Journal of Public Economics. His book project “Prejudice Reduction at Scale: How Institutional Inclusion Reduces Social Exclusion” is under advance contract with Princeton University Press.