Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Alison Post

Department of Government, CBRSS

Alison Post is a Ph.D. candidate in Government at Harvard University. Before
coming to Harvard, she earned a MSc degree in Urban and Regional Planning as a
Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics and a B.A. in History from
Stanford University. Post studies comparative political economy, focusing on
the politics of urban and regional economic development. In her dissertation,
she explores the politics of regulating infrastructure investment in Latin
America. She is also currently working with Paul Pierson (U.C. Berkeley) on a
study of federal tax politics in the United States. Post's teaching interests
include comparative political economy, urban politics (U.S. and comparative),
and quantitative methods. She has served as a teaching fellow for Government
1000 and 2000, core courses in the Government Department's quantitative methods
sequence. She is spending the 2005-06 academic year in Buenos Aires, where she is conducting fieldwork.