Adam S. Harris is an Associate Professor in Development Politics in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy at University College London. Prior to joining UCL, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Governance and Local Development (GLD) program at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2015-2017); he is currently a member of the GLD Steering Committee and a Research Associate with the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University (2015). He studies ethnic, race, development, and African politics with a focus on political participation using experimental, survey, and mixed methods.