Princeton University

Specialization: Development; identity politics; global public health; state-building; research methods; African politics

Lieberman's research in the field of comparative politics is centrally concerned with questions about the causes and consequences of mobilized identities and the formation of public policy (HIV/AIDS and taxation) in the developing countries. He also writes and teaches about comparative research methods. He is the author of Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS (Princeton University Press 2009) and Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation in Brazil and South Africa (Cambridge University Press 2003). His work has also appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Journal of Development Studies.

Lieberman is recipient of the 2004 Mattei Dogan Prize for best book in Comparative Analysis; the 2002 Gabriel A. Almond award from the American Political Science Association for best dissertation in the field of comparative politics; and the 2002 Mary Parker Follett award given by the APSA Politics & History section for the best article or book chapter. He was a Fulbright fellow in South Africa in 1997-98, a Robert Wood Johnson policy scholar at Yale University in 2000-02, and has received funding from the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the Macarthur Foundation. He is faculty director of the Princeton AIDS Initiative.

PhD, University of California, Berkeley

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