His research interests include American political institutions, separation of powers dynamics, and American military policy-making. Dr. Kriner graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 and received his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University in 2006. He is the author (with Francis Shen) of The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Military Policymaking, which documents the emergence of socioeconomic inequalities in who bears the human costs of war and the ramifications of these inequalities for politics and policy making. Currently, Dr. Kriner is working on two book projects, The Particularistic President (with Andrew Reeves and under contract at Cambridge University Press) and Investigating the President (with Eric Schickler).