Shigeo Hirano

Program Year: 
2007
Last Known Position: 
Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Bio: 

Shigeo Hirano is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Professor Hirano teaches and conducts research in comparative politics, American political development, political methodology, applied microeconomics, political economy, and Japanese politics. Prior to coming to Columbia, Professor Hirano taught for two years at New York University and spent a year as a visiting researcher at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003.