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 how international conflict shapes domestic politics, asking how war and other forms of political violence affect public opinion, state-society relations, and intergroup relations. My dissertation examines how the unequal distribution of wartime burdens across subnational groups shapes social cohesion. Methodologically, I use observational data, survey experiments, and computational methods. 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.