Assistant Professor of International Affairs
Natán Skigin is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of International Affairs. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He received my PhD in Political Science in 2024 from the University of Notre Dame.
Dr. Skigin’s main research interests are in comparative politics, with a focus on the causes and consequences of political violence, organized crime, and international migration in Latin America. He studies how states exercise coercive power, how marginalized groups respond to exclusion, and the consequences of these dynamics for native–immigrant relations, repression, and accountability for human rights abuses. I leverage field and natural experiments, large-scale surveys, qualitative fieldwork, and administrative data.
His research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, Political Psychology, Political Science Research and Methods, Party Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly [2x], and Research and Politics, and is under advance contract with Cambridge University Press. It has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), APSA, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP), and the Kellogg Institute, among others. Dr. Skigin was also a 2023-2024 Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar, a USIP-Minerva Peace and Security Scholar, and the 2023 APSA Political Psychology Distinguished Junior Scholar.
