Overview
Daniel de Kadt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government. His current work focuses on methodological questions for empirical social science, with an emphasis on causal inference, computation, research practice, and meta-science. Substantively, he is an expert on South African and Southern African politics, studied through the twin lenses of inequality and democracy. Among other venues, his research has appeared in Nature, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science. Daniel completed his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017. Before joining Cornell in 2026, he held faculty positions in the United States and the United Kingdom, and spent time as a data scientist in industry.
