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Current Member

Bernardo Zacka

Funding provided by the Florence Gould Foundation Fund

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Political Theory

Home Institution

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bernardo Zacka is a political theorist with an interest in ethnographic methods. His research focuses on how citizens ordinarily encounter the state. At IAS, he will be completing a book project on the architecture of welfare offices.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

Harvard University
Ph.D.
2015
MIT
B.S.
2005

Appointments

MIT
2022
Associate Professor, Political Science
MIT
2018–2022
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
2021–2022
Fellow
Christ's College, University of Cambridge
2017–2018
Junior Research Fellow
Stanford University
2015–2017
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Ethics in Society
Christ's College, University of Cambridge
2014–2015
Junior Research Fellow