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Mariya Grinberg is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her primary research focuses on how states trade with their enemies, investigating the product-level temporal variation in wartime commercial policies. Grinberg's broader research interests examine how time and uncertainty shape the strategic decisions of states, particularly in the context of order formation, military planning, and issues of state sovereignty. She 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. Additionally, she has worked as a pre-doctoral fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School and has been a Smith Richardson pre-doctoral fellow at the International Security Studies Program at Yale University. Grinberg's academic journey includes an MA from the University of Chicago's Committee on International Relations and a BA from the University of Southern California.