John Chin is an assistant teaching professor of political science in CMIST at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was previously a post-doctoral fellow. His research focuses on technologies of rebellion (coups d’état, self-coups, mass protest and nonviolent revolution, and assassinations), authoritarian politics, comparative democratization, and forecasting political instability. He is the lead author of an Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups D’état (2022). He has published in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Frontiers in Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Chinese Political Science, and the Texas National Security Review.