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Mariya Grinberg is an Associate Professor in the Political Science department at MIT. Her primary research examines states' trade relationships with their enemies, investigating product-level temporal variations in wartime commercial policies towards enemy belligerents. Her broader research interests focus on how time and uncertainty shape strategic decisions of states, particularly in terms of order formation, military planning, and questions surrounding state sovereignty. Grinberg earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2019 and has held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for International Security Cooperation at Stanford University, as well as at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. She also holds an MA from the University of Chicago's Committee on International Relations and a BA from the University of Southern California. Additionally, she was a pre-doctoral fellow at the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School in 2018-2019 and the Smith Richardson Pre-doctoral Fellow in the International Security Studies Program at Yale University in 2017-2018.