Rate My Professor Giuliana Pardelli

Giuliana Pardelli is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Division of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi, a position she assumed in 2019. She also holds the title of Global Network Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University. Her academic credentials include a PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University in 2019, a Joint Master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 2013, a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin in 2011, an MA from the Paris School of Economics in 2009, and a BA in Economics from the University of São Paulo.

Pardelli’s research examines the relationship between inequality, state-building, and state capacity, with a particular emphasis on Latin America and the determinants of subnational variation in fiscal capacity and public goods provision. Her key publications include “Ethnoracial Homogeneity and Public Outcomes: The (Non)effects of Diversity” (with Alexander Kustov, American Political Science Review, 2018), “When Coethnicity Fails” (with Alexander Kustov, World Politics, 2022), and “When do Economic Elites Support Increasing Taxation? Evidence from the American South” (with Jeffrey Jensen and Jeffrey F. Timmons, Journal of Politics, forthcoming). Her research has been funded by the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, and Princeton’s Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). Pardelli received the McGillivray Best Paper Award from the APSA Political Economy Section in 2019, a PIIRS Fellowship from the University Center for Human Values (2018-2019), a PIIRS Dissertation Grant ($10,000, 2017), and other grants including from the Center for Globalization and Governance ($5,000, 2017). She has taught courses including Introduction to Comparative Politics (2019), Inequality (2017), Comparative Political Economy of Development (2022), and Latin American Politics (2016), and serves as a reviewer for journals such as American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, and Comparative Political Studies.