John M. Sides is an American political scientist.
He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996,[1] and pursued a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] Sides then began his teaching career as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin.[3] He subsequently joined the George Washington University faculty,[4] then was appointed William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair and Professor at Vanderbilt University.[2]
Sides cofounded The Monkey Cage, a blog, in 2007.[5][6]