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James Mahon
James Mahon's current research focuses on how politicians target their political advertising to voters and on the role of the media in Latin America as an anti-corruption watchdog.
Mahon received a bachelor's in Economics and in Political Science with Honors from Columbia University in 2007. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa. His senior thesis investigated the ethnic composition of peasant protests in Mexico.
Prior to Chicago, Mahon interned for a year at a prepaid cell phone start-up in New York. He has also spent time in Washington, DC at the Grameen Foundation USA and at the World Resources Institute as a Charles G. Koch Fellow.
