Melissa Nobles

Melissa Nobles is an American political scientist and academic administrator. She is a chancellor and professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[1][2] She previously served as the Kenan Sahin Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.[3]

Melissa Nobles
Nobles in 2015
OccupationPolitical scientist, academic administrator
Academic background
Alma materBrown University
Yale University
Doctoral advisorJames C. Scott
Academic work
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Nobles majored in history at Brown University. She completed a M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at Yale University.[4] Her 1995 dissertation was titled, Responding with Good Sense: The Politics of Race and Censuses in Contemporary Brazil. James C. Scott was her doctoral advisor.[5] Nobles conducted fellowships at the Boston University Institute for Race and Social Division and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.[4]

From 2013 to 2014, Nobles was vice-president of the American Political Science Association.[4]

Selected works
  • Nobles, Melissa (2000). Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4059-3.
  • Nobles, Melissa (2008). The Politics of Official Apologies. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-46818-3.
  • Kwak, Jun-Hyeok; Nobles, Melissa, eds. (2013). Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-07305-3.

References
  1. "Melissa Nobles named MIT's next chancellor". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
  2. Blackstone, Andrea (2021-07-23). "Melissa Nobles Becomes MIT's Next Chancellor". Black Enterprise. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
  3. "Melissa Nobles". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
  4. "Melissa Nobles | People | MIT Political Science". polisci.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-03.
  5. Nobles, Melissa. Responding with Good Sense: The Politics of Race and Censuses in Contemporary Brazil. OCLC 1172123047.
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