Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin (2021–present)
Professor (by courtesy), McCombs School of Business and LBJ School of Public Affairs
Co-Director, Innovations for Peace and Development (IPD)
Co-Founder and President, Evaluasi
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study at the Toulouse School of Economics (2025)
Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar · Member of EGAP
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007
Political violence, international development, illicit finance, ethics, and methodology. I use field experiments, statistical and computational models, and extensive fieldwork across Colombia, Afghanistan, DRC, Sudan, South Sudan, South Africa, and Uganda.
Publications appear in Nature Human Behaviour, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Annual Review of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Penn Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Cambridge University Press, among others.
Department of Government
The University of Texas at Austin
3.102 Batts, Austin, TX 78712
mikefindley@utexas.edu
@mgfindley