Evan Lieberman is the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa and the founding director of the Global Diversity Lab at MIT. He also directs the MIT-Africa Program and is a Fellow in the Boundaries, Membership & Belonging research group of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Lieberman’s research is primarily concerned with understanding the causes and consequences of ethnic, racial, and nationalist identification as related to human dignity and human development; the role of democratic institutions in multi-ethnic societies; and the development of state capacities. He is the author of two scholarly books, Race and Regionalism in the Politics of Taxation (Cambridge 2003) and Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS (Princeton 2009); a forthcoming book on post-apartheid South Africa, and dozens of scholarly articles. Previously, Lieberman was a member of the faculty at Princeton University, a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Yale University, and an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cape Town. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Lieberman is Vice President of the Friends of the Legal Resources Centre Foundation, and is a member of the E-GAP network. He serves on the editorial board of World Politics.