Susan Hyde is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Yale University. She is affiliated with the MacMillian Center and the the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2006. Before joining the department she was a Research Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Her research interests include international influences on domestic politics, elections in developing countries, international norm creation, and the use of natural and field experimental research methods. Her current research explores the effects of international democracy promotion efforts, with a particular focus on international election observation. She has served as an international observer with several organizations for elections in Albania, Indonesia, Pakistan and Venezuela, and has worked for the Democracy Program at The Carter Center. She teaches courses on international organizations, democracy promotion, the global spread of elections, and the role of non-state actors in world politics.