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Fiona Shen-Bayh is an Assistant Professor of Government & Politics at the University of Maryland, with a joint appointment at the College of Information Studies. She specializes in authoritarian regimes' legal and judicial systems, focusing on postcolonial Africa. Her research employs computational social science methods to analyze governance in the Global South. She holds a PhD in Political Science from UC Berkeley and a BA in Economics from Vassar College.
Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of International Studies, and the Global Research Institute. She co-founded the Digital Inclusion and Governance Lab at William & Mary and is affiliated with the University of Bergen's Centre on Law and Social Transformations and the University of Maryland's Center for International Development and Conflict Management.
Her book Undue Process (Cambridge University Press) won three major awards in 2023, including the Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award. Her research explores judicial institutions, ethnic bias in legal systems, and autocratic strategies for maintaining power. She teaches courses on digital dictatorships and political behavior.
- Key Awards: Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award, Giovanni Sartori Book Award, Juan Linz Best Book Prize
- Grants: NSF, Institute of International Studies, Global Research Institute
- Labs: Digital Inclusion and Governance Lab, Interdisciplinary Lab for Computational Social Science (iLCSS)
