Melissa Nobles
Melissa Nobles | |
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Nobles in 2024 | |
| 7th Chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Assumed office August 18, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Cynthia Barnhart |
| 9th Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences | |
| In office 2015–2021 | |
| Preceded by | Deborah Kay Fitzgerald |
| Succeeded by | Agustín Rayo |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 13, 1963 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Education | Brown University (BA) Yale University (MA, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Political science |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Responding with good sense: the politics of race and censuses in contemporary Brazil (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | James C. Scott |
Melissa Nobles (born May 13, 1963) is an American political scientist. Since August 2021, she has served as Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 7th Chancellor, the university's top administrator for student life. At MIT, she is also the Class of 1922 Professor of Political Science.
Nobles served as the 9th dean of MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences from 2015 to 2021. Her scholarship focuses on the comparative study of racial politics, categorization, violence, and reconciliation.