Department of Political Science
Stanford University
Encina Hall West, 415
Stanford, CA 94305-6044

jweinst@stanford.edu
(650) 736-1224 (voice)

Expertise
civil war; ethnic politics; political economy of development; Africa

Jeremy M. Weinstein is Associate Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He serves as director of the Center for African Studies, and is an affiliated faculty member at CDDRL and CISAC. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C.

Weinstein recently returned to Stanford after serving as Director for Development and Democracy on the National Security Council staff at the White House between 2009 and 2011.

Previously, he was a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, where he directed the bi-partisan Commission on Weak States and US National Security. While working on his PhD, with funding from the Jacob Javits Fellowship, a Sheldon Fellowship, and the World Bank, he conducted hundreds of interviews with rebel combatants and civilians in both Africa and Latin America for his forthcoming book, Inside Rebellion: The Political Economy of Rebel Organization. He has also worked on the National Security Council staff; served as a visiting scholar at the World Bank; was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and received a research fellowship in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He received his BA with High Honors from Swarthmore College, and his MA and PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University.