SAM HANDLIN
Associate PROFESSOr
OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
Welcome to my personal web site! I am an associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College, teaching and researching comparative politics. My current research focuses on the politics of secret policing and digital surveillance in contemporary autocracies. This research agenda centers on a book project examining why some countries are more or less successful at building capable digital surveillance states in the 21st century as well as the implications of such capabilities for the dynamics of autocratic elections and inter-elite conflict. I also am working on a variety of related and semi-related article projects and would be happy to share working papers with anyone interested.