The Bitter Aloe Project: Building a Prosopographic Understanding of Apartheid-Era Violence Through Advanced Machine Learning …goal is to open new avenues for research into political violence in South Africa during the apartheid era by bringing new forms of legibility to this massive archive through the…
Targeted Recruitment: Explaining Why Certain Clans Join and Eschew Al-Shebab in Somalia …picture, where historical, sociopolitical, and cultural factors significantly influence individuals’ decisions to join the militant group. Clans like the Rahanweyn (Digil and Mirifle), despite having stable political and economic conditions,…
State Practices, National Identity and Anti-Immigrantism in Western Democracies This study critically examines the various practices of anti-immigrantism in three Western democracies—the United States, the United Kingdom, and France—within the context of globalization. The study draws upon the works…
The Farm Killings Shortly after South Africa’s first democratic elections were held in 1994, White agricultural associations raised the cry that their members were being killed in increasing numbers by predatory criminals. A…
Competitive Intervention and its Consequences for Civil Wars This project explores two interrelated puzzles about external intervention and internal war. The first asks why rebels, governments, and third-party interveners often continue to invest in costly and protracted conflicts…
Grassroots Peace: Postconflict Reconstruction in Rural Colombia This project focuses on grassroots peacebuilding efforts across 182 rural villages in Eastern Antioquia, Colombia. For nearly a decade, these villages were caught on the frontlines of the civil conflict…
HFG Pembroke College Research Fellow …case for the relevance of potential findings for policies intended to reduce these ills. Candidates are drawn from the disciplines of human, political, and social sciences, international relations, and related…
Private Gun Ownership in Modern China, 1912–1949 This dissertation examines private gun ownership and its sociocultural and political implications in modern China from 1860 to 1949, a period characterized by foreign invasion, constant military conflicts, and political…
Contested Narratives: A Genesis of State Violence in Post-Revolutionary Iran (1979-1988) The study explores dynamics of violence in Iran in relation to state formation after the 1979 revolution. It focuses on episodes of large-scale collective violence against political opponents and mass…
When the Rebels Win: State Power and Public Interests after Civil Wars …political transformation, spurring attempts to expand state reach over and through territory and society. More opportunistic organizations primarily desire power and private wealth, and are uninterested in public goods provision….
