Fiona Shen-Bayh is an Assistant Professor of Government & Politics with a joint appointment at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Interdisciplinary Lab for Computational Social Science at UMD and the Centre on Law and Social Transformations at the University of Bergen. 

She studies the politics of authoritarian regimes, specifically the legal and judicial instruments of power. Her book Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts (Cambridge University Press) examines these themes in the context of postcolonial Africa. Her other works have been published in the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, World Politics, and Oxford University Press. She earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and her BA in Economics from Vassar College. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary where she served as a faculty affiliate of the Global Research Institute and the Data Science program. She was also a Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. 

Teaching

• GVPT429J: Digital Dictatorships
• GVPT 888P: Comparative Institutions