Rebecca Perlman

Rebecca Perlman was formerly a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 2021-2022.

Perlman is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She received her PhD in political science from Stanford University in 2019. She also holds a master’s degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University. Her primary field of research is international political economy, with a focus on regulatory politics and the governance of multinational corporations. While at Hoover, she will be working to complete her book manuscript, which explores how companies leverage private information in order to win barriers to competition and trade at both the national and international levels. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Legal Analysis.