Matthew Nanes

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I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at Saint Louis University. Beginning on July 1st, 2025 I will be an Associate Senior Instructional Professor and Associate Director at the University of Chicago's Committee on International Relations.

My research is on domestic security institutions and citizen-state relations, particularly in places plagued by violent intergroup conflict. For example, how does minority integration into the police rank-and-file affect citizens’ willingness to cooperate with police officers? Does marginalization from state security forces motivate anti-state violence? How does community-oriented policing affect engagement with the state? I explore these questions using survey and experimental research in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. You can view some of my current work on my “research” page.

Previously, I was a postdoc at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (2017-18) and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan's Center for Political Studies (2024-25). I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of California San Diego in 2017, and I proudly hold a B.A. from Rice University in Houston, Texas.