About
David Leblang is the Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Endowed Professor of Politics in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the Randolph Compton Professor of Public Affairs and Director of Policy Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. He is a Professor, by courtesy, in the School of Data Science and is an affiliated faculty member in the Jewish Studies Program.
Leblang is a scholar of political economy. His research focuses on global migration and the politics of financial markets — how political institutions shape the movement of people and capital across borders, and how those flows in turn reshape domestic politics. His work appears in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and PNAS, among other venues.
His most recent book, The Ties That Bind: Immigration and the Global Political Economy (with Benjamin Helms, Cambridge University Press, 2023), examines how diaspora networks anchor flows of investment, remittances, and political ideas between sending and receiving countries.
Affiliations at UVA
- Department of Politics
- Miller Center of Public Affairs
- Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
- School of Data Science (courtesy)
- Program in Jewish Studies (affiliated faculty)
Visiting Positions
International Monetary Fund · European Commission, Directorate of Economics and Finance · University of St. Gallen · University of Milan · Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya · Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
Contact
Gibson Hall 281, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904. Email: leblang@virginia.edu.