John Joseph Chin

John J. Chin is an assistant teaching professor with the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Security and Technology. He is the lead author of an Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d'état (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). He previously was a research coordinator and post-doctoral fellow with the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame (2006), M.P.P. from the University of Michigan (2008), and Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University (2017). Prior to entering academia, he was an international affairs analyst at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office.