Departmental Seminar with Sahil Chinoy (Yale)

Sahil Chinoy is a Postdoctoral Associate Associate and Lecturer in Ethics, Politics & Economics at Yale University. He is also affiliated to the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Center for American Political Studies, Opportunity Insights, and the Social Economics Lab. He will be joining Stanford in the Department of Political Science this Fall as Assistant Professor. He was awarded a PhD in Economics at Harvard in 2025.

His research focuses on the contemporary and 20th-century political economy of the United States. His current projects study political segregation at the workplace and the effect of World War I on civil rights activism and racial prejudice, among other topics. He has already received a number of fellowships throughout his graduate studies, notably a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.

Sahil Chinoy's website

He will present a paper at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:

World War I and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan (read abstract, PDF 42 KB)

The next Departmental Seminar will host Rema Hanna (HKS) on March 16th.