John M. Sides

John M. Sides is an American political scientist.

He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996, and pursued a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. Sides then began his teaching career as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He subsequently joined the George Washington University faculty, then was appointed William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair and Professor at Vanderbilt University.

Sides cofounded The Monkey Cage, a blog, in 2007.