Associate Professor Ariel White

Ariel White

Associate Professor of Political Science

American politics; political behavior; voting; race/ethnicity.

Biography

Ariel White is the Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. She studies voting and voting rights, race, the criminal legal system, and bureaucratic behavior. Her work uses large datasets (and sometimes experiments) to measure individual-level experiences, and to shed light on people's everyday interactions with government. She received her PhD in Government from Harvard University and has spent time as a visiting fellow at Russell Sage Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute. Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Science, Political Behavior, and other journals.

 

Research

Ariel White's research page

Recent Publications

Ariel White's publication page.

News

Where legal, voting by those in prison is rare, study shows

Peter Dizikes MIT News

A new study by MIT scholars, “How Often Do People Vote While Incarcerated? Evidence from Maine and Vermont,” examines the two U.S. states where people can vote even while they are incarcerated.

Exploring the human stories behind the data

Alli Armijo MIT News

Senior Brian Williams has used bioengineering as a launchpad to combat racism in public health — and he doesn’t want to stop there.

What must the US do to sustain its democracy?

Peter Dizikes MIT News

Recent months have been tumultuous for U.S. democracy, in ways that are both novel and yet also connected to conflicts seen throughout the country’s past. MIT News spoke to several of the Institute’s political scientists and historians, and asked them: What must the U.S. do to sustain the health of its democracy?

Biography

Ariel White is the Silverman (1968) Family Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. She studies voting and voting rights, race, the criminal legal system, and bureaucratic behavior. Her work uses large datasets (and sometimes experiments) to measure individual-level experiences, and to shed light on people's everyday interactions with government. She received her PhD in Government from Harvard University and has spent time as a visiting fellow at Russell Sage Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute. Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Science, Political Behavior, and other journals.

 

Research

Ariel White's research page

Recent Publications

Ariel White's publication page.

News

Where legal, voting by those in prison is rare, study shows

Peter Dizikes MIT News

A new study by MIT scholars, “How Often Do People Vote While Incarcerated? Evidence from Maine and Vermont,” examines the two U.S. states where people can vote even while they are incarcerated.

Exploring the human stories behind the data

Alli Armijo MIT News

Senior Brian Williams has used bioengineering as a launchpad to combat racism in public health — and he doesn’t want to stop there.

What must the US do to sustain its democracy?

Peter Dizikes MIT News

Recent months have been tumultuous for U.S. democracy, in ways that are both novel and yet also connected to conflicts seen throughout the country’s past. MIT News spoke to several of the Institute’s political scientists and historians, and asked them: What must the U.S. do to sustain the health of its democracy?