Ethnic Violence vs. Imperial Segregations: Multinational Criminality in the Russian Imperial City as a Space of Conflict and Cooperation For over two decades, I’ve been studying a variety of topics in the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. As I see now, all of them have…
Troubled Peace: Explaining Political Violence in Post-Conflict Settings …a history-grounded investigation in the nature and impact of post-conflict violence and the dynamics of its variation. My project explains why the winners of a war kill their former enemies…
Dynamics of Violence in Conventional Civil Wars …including general history books, as well as regional and local studies. The Spanish Civil War is the main case study of the book; this is, together with the US Civil…
Stress Reactivity to Provocation and Aggression in Early Adulthood: Do Early Victimization and Regulation Processes Matter? …consider coping strategies and stress regulation as potential targets for preventing or reducing mental health and behavioral difficulties, including aggression, among young male adults with a history of childhood maltreatment….
Political Violence during the German Occupation of France 1940-44: A Micro-Level Analysis …on the History of the Second World War (Comité d’Histoire de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale or CH2GM), which brought together a group of distinguished historians to preserve, collect, and study the…
A Political Science Perspective on Teaching about Violence …approaches to violence, political scientists inevitably pay greater attention to some issues than do our colleagues in psychology, history, sociology, and anthropology. What distinguishes political science from these other disciplines,…
“True Equity Means Everyone’s Life Has Equal Value”: A Conversation with Shani Buggs …history of discriminatory policy making and the communities where we see high rates of gun violence? There’s a direct through-line. We have not invested in communities of color for decades….
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2021 Emerging Scholars …Lotte Houwink ten Cate (Columbia University). Ravaged Interiors: A Modern History of Intimate Violence, 1970-2000 Jiwon Lee Kim (Stanford University). Ethnic Conflict and Non-ethnic Voting: State Co-optation of Ethnic Minorities…
“Violence Is Contagious”: A Conversation with Andrew Papachristos …you can’t really choose not to use the highway. When people are born, they inherit these systems. They don’t always understand the history. They just know they need to get…
“We Need to Value Black Lives in the Same Way That We Value Others”: A Conversation with Kami Chavis …Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri, Chavis wrote: “This is a pivotal moment in our nation’s history, and every police chief in America should be asking: ‘How do I ensure…