Ph.D. Harvard University, Political Science (2005)
M.A. Harvard University, Political Science (2001)
M.A. University of California at Berkeley, Asian Studies (1998)
B.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Asian Studies and Japanese (1996)

Daniel P. Aldrich is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Purdue University who was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo’s Law Faculty in Japan during the 2007-2008 academic year. During 2006-2007, he was an Advanced Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations.

His research interests include the siting of controversial facilities, the interaction between civil society and the state, and the socialization of women and men through experience. Daniel’s book, Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West, was published by Cornell University Press in 2008. He has published numerous articles including “Strong Civil Society as a Double-Edged Sword:Siting Trailers in Post-Katrina New Orleans” with Kevin Crook in Political Research Quarterly , “Location, Location, Location: Selecting Sites for Controversial Facilities, ” in Singapore Economic Review, “Mars and Venus at Twilight: A Critical Investigation of Moralism, Age Affects, and Sex Differences,” with Rieko Kage in Political Psychology, “Localities that Can Say No? Autonomy and Dependence in Japanese Local Government,” in Asian Journal of Political Science, and “Siting Schemes: Central Governments, State Learning, and Local Public Bads,” in Social Science Japan. He also has an article entitled “Controversial Facility Siting: State Policy Instruments and Flexibility” in the Journal of Comparative Politics, an article entitled “The 800 Pound Gaijin in the Room” in PS: Political Science and Politics and a book chapter entitled “The Limits of Flexible and Adaptive Institutions: The Japanese Government’s Role in Nuclear Power Plant Siting over the Post War Period,” in a volume edited by S. Hayden Lesbirel and Daigee Shaw.