David Laitin
David Laitin · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Comparativist of ethnic identity and civil war; Skytte Prize (2021)
2021
United States
David Laitin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Comparativist of ethnic identity and civil war; Skytte Prize (2021)
Laitin is a Stanford comparative political scientist who won the 2021 Johan Skytte Prize for his rigorous accounts of how politics shapes cultural strategies — language, ethnicity and religion — in heterogeneous societies, and of the roots of civil war. His Jewish background is not documented in mainstream biographies; he appears in Jinfo's index of prize laureates.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the APSA Lippincott & Madison Awards and the Skytte Prize
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Comparativist of ethnic identity and civil war; Skytte Prize (2021)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the APSA Lippincott & Madison Awards and the Skytte Prize
