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Melissa M. Lee is the Klein Family Presidential Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the Director of the World House Student Fellows Program at Perry World House. Her research focuses on international and domestic politics, particularly state-building and state development. She is the author of 'Crippling Leviathan: Foreign Subversion Weakens State' published by Cornell University Press in 2020. Her work has been featured in prominent journals, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. Lee has received several accolades for her research, including the American Political Science Association’s Helen Dwight Reid award and the European Politics Society Section 2020 Article Prize. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University and her B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. Before joining the faculty at Penn, she served as an Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.
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