Melissa Nobles
Melissa Nobles | |
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Nobles in 2024 | |
| 7th Chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Assumed office August 18, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Cynthia Barnhart |
| 9th Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences | |
| In office 2015–2021 | |
| Preceded by | Deborah Kay Fitzgerald |
| Succeeded by | Agustín Rayo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 13, 1963 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Brown University (BA) Yale University (MA, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Political science |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | "Responding with good sense": the politics of race and censuses in contemporary Brazil (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | James C. Scott |
Melissa Nobles (born May 13, 1963) is an American political scientist and academic administrator. She is currently Chancellor and Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She previously served as the Kenan Sahin Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science.
Nobles' scholarship focuses on the comparative study of racial politics, categorization, violence, and reconciliation.