Professor Fairfield holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her first book, Private Wealth and Public Revenue in Latin America, won the Latin American Studies Association’s Donna Lee Van Cott Award. Her methodological works (with A.E. Charman) include Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference (CUP 2022), which was initiated during a 2017-18 Mellon Foundation Fellowship at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She is the 2024 recipient of the American Political Science Association’s David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award.

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