Mariya Grinberg Promoted to Associate Professor

Congratulations to Mariya Grinberg on her promotion to Associate Professor of Political Science, effective July 1, 2025!

Since joining the the MIT Political Science department and the Security Studies Program in July 2021, Professor Grinberg has been an integral member of our academic community, was a recipient of the MIT "Committed to Caring" Award, and continues to be proactive here at the center. 

She earned her PhD in Political Science at the University of Chicago in 2019, and served as a Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, as well as the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. She holds an MA from the University of Chicago's Committee on International Relations, and a BA from the University of Southern California. She was a pre-doctoral fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School in 2018-9, and the Smith Richardson pre-doctoral fellow with the International Security Studies Program at Yale University in 2017-8.

Her primary research examines why states trade with their enemies, investigating the product level and temporal variation in wartime commercial policies of states vis-a-vis enemy belligerents. Her broader research interests center on the question of how time and uncertainty shape the strategic decisions of states, focusing on order formation, military planning, and questions of state sovereignty. 

Members of the SSP community congratulate Professor Grinberg on this exciting milestone.