Tara Slough is an Assistant Professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University.
She writes on the political economy of institutions and development. Her current research focuses on the comparative study of bureaucracies and on research design. Her work appears or is forthcoming in journals including the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among others. Her research has been supported by grants from the NSF, USAID, EGAP/DFID, J-PAL, and Innovations for Poverty Action.
She recently earned her PhD from Columbia University. In her final two years of graduate school, she was a predoctoral fellow at Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) at the University of California, Berkeley. Before graduate school, she was a professional violinist. She earned both a BM in Violin Performance and a BA in Political Science from Rice University.