David Leblang

David Leblang is the Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs Marion R. Taylor Endowed Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia as well as a Professor of Public Policy at the University's Batten School for Leadership and Public Policy. He is also the Robert C Compton Professor of Public Affairs at the Miller Center of Public Affairs where he is Director of Policy Studies.  Leblang currently serves as Interim Associate Dean for Student Experience and Strategic Initiatives in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Leblang is a scholar of political economy with research interests in global migration and in the politics of financial markets. His recent publications include The Ties That Bind: Immigration and the Global Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2023), “Labor Market Policy as Immigration Control: The Case of Temporary Protected Status” (International Studies Quarterly, 2022), and “Framing Unpopular Foreign Policies” (American Journal of Political Science, 2022).  In 2015, Leblang was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award by the University of Virginia and in 2016 he received the Outstanding Mentoring Award from the Society of Women in International Political Economy of the International Studies Association.  

Prior to arriving at the University of Virginia in 2008, Leblang held teaching positions at the University of Colorado, the University of North Texas and the College of William and Mary. He has been a visiting scholar in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund and in the European Commission's Directorate of Economics and Finance.  During 2014 he was a visitor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano in Milan, the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

In 2015, Leblang was awarded the Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award by the University by UVa's office of the Provost.  In 2016 he received the Mentoring Award giving by the Society of Women in International Political Economy.  In 2019 he, along with colleagues from across a number of schools at UVA, was awarded the Provost Award for Collaborative Excellence in Public Service for work on the Great Recession.