​Welcome. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland. My primary research interests include self-determination, secession, civil war, leadership in rebellion, and non-violent resistance.  I received my Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2007. I have been a Fulbright Scholar and a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.  My book Inside the Politics of Self-determination was  published by Oxford University Press in 2014.  My work has also been published in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Journal of Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Research, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, Research & Politics and Perspectives on Politics. ​I received the ISA's 2017 ISSS Emerging Scholar Award.

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Recent news

• New article in Journal of Politics on Rebel Leader Ascension and Sexual Violence w/ Kanisha Bond & Katherine Sawyer
• New work rebel governance: Check out the special feature at JCR w/ my paper on Rebel Elections (w/ Katherine Sawyer and Reyko Huang)
• JPR article introducing the Strategies of Resistance Data Project is online
• ISQ article on the Foundation of Rebel Group Emergence is now online
• The FORGE database page is live! Explore the origins of rebel groups from around the world.

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Recent talks and travels

University of Edinburgh, Centre on Constitutional Change 2020
​Naval Post-Graduate School 2020
Political Economy & Political Science Workshop, London 2019
American University SIS Complex Governance Workshop 2019
​UCL Global Governance Institute (GGI) 2019
Ostrom Workshop. University of Indiana 2019
Columbia University 2019
Syracuse University 2019
APSA Women's Research Mentoring Workshop 2018
University of North Carolina 2018
University of New Mexico 2018
Duke University 2018
University College London 2018

Current positions in the profession

• I am the President Elect for the Peace Science Society International
• I am the current chair of the Conflict Processes Section at APSA
• I maintain the Rebel Governance Network
• I maintain a crowd-sourced Database of Faculty Accommodations.  Please contribute!
• I serve as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Peace Research.​
• I joined the APSA Committee on the Status of Women in 2016
• I participate in the Women in Conflict Studies (WICS) network and am an alum of Journey in World Politics.

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