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Maya received her A.B. in 2000 from Harvard College, and her J.D. in 2004 from the Stanford Law School, where she was on the executive board of the Stanford Law Review. From 2004-05, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Ron Gilman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Maya's current research interests include empirical legal studies, positive political theory and law, judicial politics, race and politics, and immigration. In 2008 and in 2009, Maya was awarded the Terence M. Considine Fellowship in Law and Social Sciences by the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business (HLS), and in 2009 she was awarded a research grant by Harvard's Real Estate Academic Initiative to study the causal effect of race and gender on subprime lending. She is also a graduate affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

Maya's teaching experience includes Gov 1510: American Constitutional Law (Richard Fallon, HLS) and Gov 2082: Religion and the First Amendment (Martha Nussbaum, U Chicago). Maya has also received Harvard's Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, with a mean student evaluation score of 4.8 out of 5.

In the academic year 2009-10, Maya will be teaching Government 2000: Introduction to Quantitative Methods (Adam Glynn) and Government 2001: Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology (Gary King).

Maya's personal webpage is here.