Gemma Dipoppa

Department of Political Science 

Research Interest 

Comparative Politics 

Political Economy 

Gemma Dipoppa is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a research affiliate with the NBER Political Economy and with EGAP. Her research examines contemporary challenges to states' capacity, focusing on organized crime, migration, and environmental enforcement.

Her work has been published in Nature, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations, Journal of Industry, Competition, and Trade. Before joining Columbia, she was a Ph.D. student in political science at the University of Pennsylvania, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, and an assistant professor at Brown University.