Masanori Kikuchi

Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. I was previously a Research Fellow for Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

I study the mass politics of international security, asking how war and political violence shape public opinion, state–society relations, and intergroup relations. My dissertation examines how the unequal distribution of wartime burdens across social groups and regions affects social cohesion, and how group identities condition those effects. Methodologically, I combine observational causal inference, survey experiments, and computational text analysis. My work has been published or is forthcoming in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Peace Research and BMC Public Health.

I received my BA (2019) and MA (2021) in Political Science from Waseda University, Japan. Outside of academic work, I enjoy playing the violin and cheering for the Cardinals.

Please feel free to reach out by email at m.kikuchi@wustl.edu or connect with me on X.