Minh D. Trinh

I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. Prior to Purdue, I was a Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT in May 2022. 

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I study the inner workings of durable authoritarian regimes. My dissertation examines the impact of internal misinformation through falsified government statistics, i.e., statistical misreporting on authoritarian governance. My other works investigate the origins of citizens' compliance with authoritarian rule from both the instrumental and normative angles.

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My research has been supported by the Southeast Asia Research Group (SEAREG), the Institute for Humane Studies, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, MIT Center for International Studies, the MIT Political Methodology Lab, and MIT GOV/LAB.

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I received my B.A. in Government and M.A. in Statistics from Harvard University. Originally from Vietnam, I am also a proud alumnus of St. Joseph's Institution International, Singapore.