Fotini Christia

Fotini Christia is the Ford International Professor in the Social Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center at MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing.

Articles by Fotini Christia

Brazilian soldiers walk during a so-called Mega Operation conducted by the Brazilian Armed Forces, along with Brazil’s police, against gang members in seven of Rio de Janeiro’s most violent favela communities in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 21, 2017.

Community Policing Is Not One Size Fits All

Argument

Graeme Blair, Jeremy M. Weinstein, Fotini Christia

November 29, 2021, 4:27 PM

An Iranian woman walks past a new mural painted on the walls of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran

Tehran Paints Over Its Anti-American Murals

Argument

Fotini Christia

November 11, 2019, 5:37 PM

An Iranian woman and child walk past a mural in downtown Tehran on April 27, 2016.

Even Conservative Iranians Want Closer Ties to the United States

Argument

Fotini Christia, Elizabeth Dekeyser, Dean Knox

May 23, 2019, 3:08 PM

A stairwell at Fatih University in Istanbul on March 7, 2013. (Photo by Monique Jaques/Corbis/Getty Images)

The Geography of Gulenism in Turkey

Argument

Tugba Bozcaga, Fotini Christia

March 18, 2019, 1:52 PM

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Too Much of a Good Thing

Argument

Fotini Christia, Ruben Enikolopov

December 18, 2013, 5:20 PM

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