Melissa Nobles
Melissa Nobles | |
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 Nobles in 2019 | |
| Occupation | Political scientist, academic administrator |
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| Alma mater | Brown University Yale University |
| Doctoral advisor | James C. Scott |
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| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Melissa Nobles is an American political scientist and academic administrator. She is a chancellor and professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[1][2] She previously served as the Kenan Sahin Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.[3]
Nobles majored in history at Brown University. She completed a M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at Yale University.[4] Her 1995 dissertation was titled, Responding with Good Sense: The Politics of Race and Censuses in Contemporary Brazil. James C. Scott was her doctoral advisor.[5] Nobles conducted fellowships at the Boston University Institute for Race and Social Division and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.[4]
From 2013 to 2014, Nobles was vice-president of the American Political Science Association.[4]
Selected works[]
- Nobles, Melissa (2000). Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4059-3.
- Nobles, Melissa (2008). The Politics of Official Apologies. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-46818-3.
- Kwak, Jun-Hyeok; Nobles, Melissa, eds. (2013). Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-07305-3.
References[]
- ^ "Melissa Nobles named MIT's next chancellor". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
- ^ Blackstone, Andrea (2021-07-23). "Melissa Nobles Becomes MIT's Next Chancellor". Black Enterprise. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Melissa Nobles". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
- ^ a b c "Melissa Nobles | People | MIT Political Science". polisci.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
- ^ Nobles, Melissa. Responding with Good Sense: The Politics of Race and Censuses in Contemporary Brazil. OCLC 1172123047.
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