Donald P. Green, Ph.D., is a leading political scientist who has published widely in psychology, economics, sociology, and criminology. His extensive body of work, which includes five books and over a hundred essays, has made significant contributions to the understanding of voting behavior, partisanship, media effects, prejudice, and research methods. Since the 1990s, Dr. Green has used field experiments to investigate the strategies employed by political campaigns to mobilize and persuade voters.

Dr. Green earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988. He taught at Yale University from 1989 to 2011. He held the position of A.Whitney Griswold Professor of Political Science and served five terms as Director of Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. In 2011, Green moved to Columbia University, where he is currently J.W. Burgess Professor of Political Science. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field, Dr. Green was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. His exceptional work also earned him the Heinz I. Eulau Award in 2009 for the best article published in the American Political Science Review. Dr. Green is one of the few scholars outside the field of economics to be named a J-PAL Affiliate. In 2010, Dr. Green founded the experimental research section of the American Political Science Association and served as its inaugural president.

With Alan Gerber (Yale University), Dr. Green co-authored the acclaimed textbook Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation (W.W. Norton 2012). More recently, he authored an undergraduate textbook, Social Science Experiments: A Hands-On Introduction (Cambridge University Press 2022). His commitment to rigorous, innovative research methods and his deep understanding of how to deploy field experiments in settings from North American to East Africa have consistently earned him strong teaching evaluations. In 2024, he was awarded the Lenfest Prize for outstanding teaching and mentoring at Columbia University. The experiments course that Dr. Green teaches here grows out of dozens of workshops that have been offered in twelve countries since 2000.