Eitan Hersh received a PhD from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty in 2011. He served for six years on the fac­ul­ty of Yale Uni­ver­si­ty as an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of polit­i­cal sci­ence and res­i­dent fel­low of the Insti­tu­tion for Social and Pol­i­cy Stud­ies before becom­ing a tenured asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of polit­i­cal sci­ence at Tufts Uni­ver­si­ty. His peer-reviewed arti­cles have been pub­lished in the major polit­i­cal sci­ence jour­nals. Hersh is the author of Hack­ing the Elec­torate and Pol­i­tics Is for Pow­er.