Kenneth A. Oye is Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. He served two terms as Director of the MIT Center for International Studies (1992-2000), and is now forming a Political Economy and Technology Policy Program within the Center. He has served on the faculties of the Kennedy School at Harvard University, the University of California, Princeton University, and Swarthmore College. He received the 1998 MIT Graduate Student Council Outstanding Teaching Award in Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts for his research seminar in international relations and the 2003 MIT Technology and Policy Program Faculty Appreciation Award for his teaching and advising in science, technology and public policy. He holds a BA in Political Science and Economics with Highest Honors from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D in Political Science with the Chase Dissertation Prize from Harvard University.
He has published six books including Cooperation Under Anarchy, Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange, and Eagle in a New World and numerous shorter pieces in international relations, political economy, and science and technology policy. His current research cuts across these fields, by using theory and methods from the field of political economy to address issues in the field of science, technology and environmental policy.
