Arvind Krishnamurthy 

Hello! For the 2023-2024 academic year , I will be a postdoctoral scholar in the Possibility Lab at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy. Beginning with Fall of 2024, I will be an assistant professor at The Ohio State University in the Political Science department.  I received my  Ph.D. in Political Science at Duke University in May of 2023, where I concentrated in Race, Ethnicity and Politics and Political Behavior. 

My scholarship sits at the nexus of race, institutions, and political behavior, focusing on the politics of the criminal legal system in the United States. One strand of my research demonstrates the institutional insulation of municipal police from public influence and democratic oversight, while another strand considers questions of local representation for racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. My work can be found in the Oxford University Press Book, Deadly Justice: A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty, and also appears in the American Political Science Review, Electoral Studies and Political Behavior. 

To learn more about me and my work you can navigate this website and check out my Twitter, CV, Google Scholar, or email me at arvind.k@berkeley.edu or krishnamurthy.51@osu.edu.