Susan Hyde

Susan Hyde is an associate professor of political science and international affairs at Yale University, where she also is a resident fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from UC San Diego in 2006 and has held fellowships at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University.

Her research interests include how international actors influence domestic politics, elections in developing countries, international norm creation and the use of natural and field experimental research methods. Currently, she is co-authoring a project with ILAR Director Emilie Hafner-Burton on the conditions under which governments use political repression as an electoral tactic.