Evangelos Liaras is a doctoral candidate specializing in comparative politics and international relations, with particular interests in identity politics, the comparative study of ethnic conflict, and the design of political institutions. He was born in Greece, and graduated with an A.B. in history (magna cum laude) from Harvard University in 2000, receiving an M.S. in political science from MIT in 2007. He has worked for the OSCE mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and as a visiting researcher at various academic institutions in Turkey, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, and Guyana. His dissertation on the limitations of electoral engineering in divided societies was supported by the Alexander Onassis Foundation in Greece, the A. G. Leventis foundation in the United Kingdom, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation in the United States. He speaks Greek, French, Spanish, and Turkish.
