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.
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
An Iranian woman walks past a new mural painted on the walls of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran
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
An Iranian woman and child walk past a mural in downtown Tehran on April 27, 2016.
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
A stairwell at Fatih University in Istanbul on March 7, 2013. (Photo by Monique Jaques/Corbis/Getty Images)
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
Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images
Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images

Too Much of a Good Thing
Argument
Fotini Christia, Ruben Enikolopov
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