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I'm a Postdoctoral Associate working at Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy. My research interests focus on child maltreatment prevention, child welfare policy, and parenting in families with low socio-economic status in the U.S. and Asian countries.
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PhD student in political science and communication, policy research fellow in East Asian studies, research fellow in network dynamics. Interested in conflict prevention and management policies from subnational to international levels.
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I am a professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa at MIT, where I direct MIT-Africa and the Global Diversity Lab. My research and teaching centers around the opportunities and challenges of diversity within and across countries for building healthy and resilient societies. At the Global Diversity Lab, we are focused on research concerning global public health, climate change, and efforts to promote human development and dignity.
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Senior Statistician at the National Foundation for Educational Research (UK), with a particular interest in the role that education plays in reducing inequalities.
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Anastasia Shesterinina is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow leading the £1.2m Civil War Paths project "Understanding Civil War from Pre- to Post-War Stages: A Comparative Approach," Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War and Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Politics at the University of Sheffield. After receiving her PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia, she was a Canada Social Science and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University's Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence. Her field-intensive research examines the internal dynamics of and international intervention in contemporary armed conflict, with a focus on violent mobilization, ex-combatant reintegration, and civilian protection norms and practices. Her book Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia published with Cornell University Press in 2021 received the 2022 APSA Charles Taylor Book Award. Her work has appeared in American Political Science Review, Journal of Peace Research, Perspectives on Politics, European Journal of International Relations, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and International Peacekeeping.
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Gwen Prowse is a joint PhD candidate in the departments of political science and African American studies at Yale University. Her work is broadly concerned with grassroots political mobilization in the Deep South region of the U.S. Gwen’s research is multi-method and aims to involve community members in every step of the research process.
Gwen is a research fellow with the Institute for Social Policy Studies (ISPS) and affiliated with the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. She is also the co-PI for the Portals Policing Project, which examines how police-citizen interactions shape political knowledge and political discourse in majority-Black communities in the United States.
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I am a PhD candidate in Yale University's Political Science Department and a 2020-2021 United States Institute for Peace (USIP) Peace Scholar Fellow. I also work as a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Global Impact and a Senior Associate (non-resident) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
In 2015, I graduated with an MA in International Economics and African Studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS. My research is at the intersection of security, gender, and governance, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. I have conducted field work in Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda, and Ethiopia. My work has been published in International Security, Security Studies, Stability, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and African Studies Review.
I have previously worked as a research analyst for the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), the National Defense University, and the Institute for Defense Analyses. As a freelance journalist, I have been published by Newsweek, IRIN, and Foreign Affairs, among others. My first book, Women and the War on Boko Haram, was published in 2017 with Zed Publishers.
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A PhD Candidate in Social Policy, I study the efficacy of policy co-production and the political and economic conditions that lead to strong social enterprise ecosystems globally. My background is in public policy and global development and I have worked for various government agencies, global nonprofit, and social enterprise organizations.
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Saghar Sara Birjandian is a scholar-practitioner with years of experience working on transitional justice and atrocity prevention initiatives in Canada, Uganda, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She is currently a Charles E. Scheidt Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow at the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, State University of New York at Binghamton. Her research focuses on developing and applying critical and decolonial approaches to transitional justice policy development that evade mainstream and non-mainstream prescriptions.
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senior researcher at the University of Cassino and Souther Lazio (Italy), Dept. of Human Sciences, Society and Health.