Tasha Fairfield
Tasha Fairfield, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics.
Professor Fairfield joined the European University Institute as Chair in Political and Social Sciences in September 2025. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from UC Berkeley. Her comparative politics research has analyzed the political economy of inequality, the politics of policy formulation, and business-state relations. Her first book, Private Wealth and Public Revenue in Latin America, won the Latin American Studies Association’s Donna Lee Van Cott Award. Fairfield received the 2024 APSA-QMMR David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award for her methodological work on Bayesian analysis for qualitative research, including Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference (CUP 2022), which was initiated during a 2017–2018 Mellon Foundation Fellowship at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She convenes the Qualitative Bayesian Reasoning Network for scholars interested in employing the method. Fairfield’s research has appeared in journals including Political Analysis, Comparative Political Studies, and Perspectives on Politics.
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