Fathimath Musthaq

Fathimath Musthaq is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College, affiliated with the Political Science Department within the Division of History and Social Sciences. Her research focuses on central banking, the politics of finance and financialization, natural resources, colonial legacies, and development.

• PhD in Political Science from Indiana University Bloomington (2021)
• BA from Williams College (MA)
• International Baccalaureate from United World College of the Atlantic

Her work has been published in New Political Economy, Review of African Political Economy, and Journal of Democracy. She examines how hierarchies in the international system incentivize financialization of debt and natural resources in poor countries, the role of the state in de-risking accumulation in late capitalism, climate finance politics, and colonial legacies' impact on development trajectories.