Mehdi Shadmehr headshot
Past Member

Mehdi Shadmehr

Richard B. Fisher Member

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Political Economy of Authoritarian Regimes: Revolution and Regime Change, Repression and Censorship, Leadership, and Ideology.
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Mehdi Shadmehr is interested in regime change in authoritarian regimes. His research focuses on information frictions and coordination problems in the interactions between dissidents and the state.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D.
2011
Sharif University of Technology
B.Sc.
2004

Honors

1999
Third Place in the Iranian National Chemistry Olympiad

Appointments

University of Chicago
2018
Visiting Associate Professor
University of Calgary
2016
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Miami Business School
2011–2016
Assistant Professor of Economics
Princeton University Department of Politics
2015
Visiting Research Associate Scholar