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Noah Nathan is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in electoral politics, political economy, and urban politics in Africa. His recent book, 'Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland' published by Cambridge University Press in 2023, explores the long-term effects of state-building in rural peripheries, economic inequality, elite capture, clientelism, and violence. In addition, he authored 'Electoral Politics in Africa’s Urban Transition: Class and Ethnicity in Ghana,' which examines urbanization's impacts on ethnicity, clientelism, and the emergence of programmatic politics. Nathan's scholarship has been published in leading academic journals including the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, and Comparative Political Studies. He earned his PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2016.