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Joseph Felter is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University) and the William J. Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation. His career bridges academia, military service, and policy advising, with expertise in counterinsurgency, national security, and US-China relations. He coauthored the influential book Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution and Modern Conflict (2018) and developed the Hacking for Defense curriculum to connect military needs with Silicon Valley innovation. Military Background: Former US Army Special Forces officer with combat deployments in Panama, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Served as commander of the COMISAF Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team. Academic Roles: Assistant Professor at West Point’s Department of Social Sciences, Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs, and current codirector of Stanford’s Empirical Studies of Conflict Project. Research Focus: Politically motivated violence, economic development in conflict zones, and defense innovation. His work appears in top journals like American Economic Review and Journal of Conflict Resolution . Policy Engagement: Key advisor on US defense strategy (2017–2019) and founder of BMNT, a Silicon Valley defense technology incubator. Currently serves on Spirit of America’s board. Scientific Awards: Recognized as a William J. Perry Fellow and US Army War College Fellow. His empirical conflict research informs both academic and policy debates.

• Counterinsurgency
• Politically Motivated Violence
• National Security Strategy
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Elisabeth Jean Wood is a Professor of Political Science at Yale University and holds a concurrent professorship at the Santa Fe Institute. Her research focuses on political violence, particularly sexual violence during war, civil war dynamics, and social movements. She is renowned for her work on insurgent transitions in South Africa and El Salvador, as well as her analysis of variation in wartime sexual violence. Wood has authored influential books including Forging Democracy from Below (2000) and Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (2003). Her recent work examines the Myanmar military's sexual violence against the Rohingya, emphasizing ideological motivations and institutional frameworks. Wood teaches courses on comparative politics, political violence, and qualitative research methods at Yale. She serves on editorial boards for Politics and Society , American Political Science Review , and the Contentious Politics series. Her research emphasizes ethical fieldwork practices and transparency in qualitative studies, addressing challenges in conflict zones. Her work bridges theoretical contributions with policy implications for understanding and preventing conflict-related atrocities.

• Political Science
• Conflict Studies
• Political Violence
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Terrence Chapman is a Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, affiliated with the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, Center for European Studies, and Clements Center on History Strategy, and Statecraft. His research focuses on international organizations, conflict resolution, and political economy frameworks. Key research areas include: International institutional legitimacy Global regulatory regimes Public opinion in international affairs Conflict management mechanisms Formal modeling of diplomatic interactions Recent scholarly trends reveal expertise in climate governance negotiations, digital surveillance politics, and regulatory effectiveness. His work spans theoretical modeling and empirical analysis of international collaboration dynamics. Scientific recognition includes: 2011-2012 APSA Conflict Processes Section Book Award Teaching portfolio covers: Science Fiction and Politics International Organization and Law Research Methods in International Politics Previously served as associate/senior editor for International Studies Quarterly .

• International Organizations
• International Conflict
• International Law
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Kevin Evans is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University's Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs. He specializes in American presidency, interbranch relations, and the institutional development of the presidency. His research examines conflict and cooperation between branches of American government, with work published in leading political science journals. Education includes: Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California, Davis (2011) B.A. in Political Science, University of California, Irvine (2005) His research focuses on presidential-congressional dynamics, constitutional challenges in executive actions, and strategic communication through signing statements. Recent work explores how presidents claim credit for legislative accomplishments and navigate institutional boundaries. Evans's publications consistently analyze presidential power dynamics across administrations, with frequent examination of signing statements as tools for credit-claiming and constitutional positioning. His articles demonstrate sustained interest in historical case studies of executive-legislative relations. Awards and honors include: FIU Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (2018) Morris and Anita Broad Research Fellowship (2015-2016, 2012-2013) SPSA Artinian Travel Award (2016) SIPA Faculty-Student Research Award (2015) He has advised graduate students including Maria I. Gabryszewska (Ph.D.) and Melissa Burgess (M.A.), and serves in departmental leadership roles including Graduate Program Director. Current research examines racial violence in Northern Louisiana through intergenerational family networks.

• American Presidency
• Interbranch Relations
• Institutional Development of the Presidency
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Christopher Han-Fai Seto is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University, having joined the Department of Sociology in 2023. His research sits at the intersection of criminology, public health, and the sociology of religion, with a strong computational and spatial-methods orientation. Education: Ph.D. in Criminology, Pennsylvania State University Research Interests: Dr. Seto’s substantive work revolves around hate crime, violence, health, and religion/morality , approached through ecological lenses. He leverages spatial data , large-scale network analysis , and big social & digital data to understand how community contexts shape deviance and well-being. Publication Profile: Between 2020 and 2025 he has published extensively in leading journals—including Justice Quarterly , Health & Place , Social Science & Medicine , British Journal of Criminology , Sociology of Religion , and Journal of Adolescent Health . The body of work reveals a consistent focus on anti-Asian hate incidents , Christian nationalism and gun policy , religious ecology of crime , and COVID-19 spillover effects . Contact & Web Presence: Office: BRNG 1156, Purdue University Email: setoc@purdue.edu Personal website: chseto.com

• Criminology
• Hate Crime
• Violence
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Miguel R. Rueda is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Emory University, specializing in electoral manipulation, civil conflict, money in politics, and political methodology. He holds a PhD from the University of Rochester (2014), an M.Sc. in Economics, and a B.Sc. in Economics and Mathematics from La Universidad de los Andes. Before Emory, he was a visiting scholar at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (2013–2014). In Fall 2024, he will serve as a Visiting Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University. His research has been published in top journals like the American Political Science Review , American Journal of Political Science , and Journal of Conflict Resolution . Key themes include electoral fraud mechanisms, civil war dynamics, and the intersection of political methodology with empirical policy analysis. Rueda's work spans theoretical models of strategic behavior (e.g., foreign aid allocation, partisan poll-watching) and applied analyses of electoral systems, conflict outcomes, and governance challenges. His methodological contributions address econometric issues like post-instrument bias and omitted variable effects. Contact: miguel.rueda@emory.edu , 315 Tarbutton Hall, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.

• Electoral Manipulation
• Civil Conflict
• Money in Politics
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Lindsey O'Rourke is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College's Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. Her research examines U.S. foreign policy, international security, and covert regime change operations. Her work analyzes the causes, conduct, and consequences of U.S.-orchestrated covert interventions during the Cold War, gender dynamics in terrorism, and the strategic implications of regime change. Her book 'Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War' received significant scholarly recognition. She teaches courses on U.S. foreign policy since 1945, the World Wars, and foreign-imposed regime change. Publications demonstrate three interconnected research streams: 50% on covert operations and regime change, 30% on gender dimensions of political violence, and 20% on contemporary security challenges. Her work combines historical analysis with contemporary policy implications.

• U.S. Foreign Policy
• International Security
• Covert Operations
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Jennifer Schwartz is the James F. Short Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University (WSU). Her research focuses on criminology, stratification/inequalities, communities, and substance use/health. She holds a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University (2003). Her work examines crime trends, gender disparities in offending, and the societal implications of criminal justice policies. Key areas include patterns of violence across genders and ages, rural-urban crime dynamics, and corporate financial fraud. Dr. Schwartz has conducted extensive research on drunk driving prevalence, gendered participation in environmental and corporate crimes, and cross-national variations in offending. Her projects often involve data triangulation across multiple sources (arrest records, self-reports, victim data). Notable grants include a National Institute of Justice-funded study on recreational cannabis in Washington State (2018-2019) and collaborative work on 21st-century corporate financial crime (2014-2019). Education: Ph.D., Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 2003 Her research highlights how societal structures influence criminal behavior, particularly through gendered opportunities and risk preferences. She has published widely in top journals like Criminology and American Sociological Review , analyzing topics such as age-crime curves, rural justice systems, and environmental harm. Grants/Advising: Co-PI on NIJ studies on cannabis policy and corporate fraud; advisor on multiple doctoral projects Labs/Teams: Collaborates with WSU's Criminology Research Group on interdisciplinary projects

• Criminology
• Stratification/Inequalities
• Communities
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Sylwia J. Piatkowska is an Associate Professor at the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice , Florida State University. Her research focuses on crime and deviance, comparative and international criminology, and advanced quantitative methods. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from SUNY Albany (2016) and a B.A./M.A. from Opole University (2006). Her work has been recognized with top honors from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for her impactful research on criminology. Key research interests include hate crimes, fiscal criminology, immigration policy impacts, and sentencing disparities. She has authored/co-authored influential studies such as “The New Fiscal Criminology” (2022) and “Suspended Licenses, Suspended Lives” (2020). Her recent work examines temporal trends in bias-motivated violence and the intersection of mental health, race, and gender in sentencing. Recent Awards: Top Honors from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for her book. Professional Roles: Member of the National Policing Institute’s Board of Directors and editor of leading criminology journals. Her research bridges macro-level structural factors with micro-level criminal behavior, emphasizing cross-national comparisons and policy implications. She is affiliated with Florida State University’s criminology research programs and actively contributes to academic discourse through peer-reviewed publications and institutional leadership.

• Crime and Deviance
• Comparative Criminology
• International Criminology
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Yuri Zhukov is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University, holding dual appointments in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of Government (College). His research focuses on armed conflict, state repression, and geospatial data science, with notable work on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and historical legacies of political violence. He earned his Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, an M.A. in National Security Studies from Georgetown, and a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University. Education: Ph.D., Government, Harvard University M.A., National Security Studies, Georgetown University B.A., International Relations, Brown University His research interests span the intersection of political violence and quantitative methods. He has pioneered geospatial analysis tools like VIINA to track conflict incidents and developed databases such as xSub for subnational violence studies. His work on Ukraine’s economic resilience during the 2022 invasion and vaccine hesitancy in low-income countries highlights his interdisciplinary approach to global challenges. His articles frequently address modern warfare dynamics, repression strategies, and historical conflict impacts. Awards include the 2015 Bruce Russett Award for excellence in conflict research. Zhukov’s advising and grants focus on military conflict, authoritarian regimes, and global health policy, reflecting his commitment to understanding systemic drivers of violence and governance.

• Armed Conflict
• Political Repression
• Geospatial Data Science
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Brian A. Catlos is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and Research Associate in Humanities at the University of California Santa Cruz. He serves as Director of the CU Mediterranean Studies Group and Co-Director of The Mediterranean Seminar, an international scholarly forum with over 1,900 members worldwide. His academic appointments span multiple disciplines including Religious Studies, History, Ethnic Studies, Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Jewish Studies. Dr. Catlos specializes in Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations, Medieval Mediterranean history, and ethno-religious minorities in pre-modern contexts. His research focuses on the complex dynamics of religious and ethnic identity in medieval Europe and the Islamic world, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula. He explores how religious minorities navigated political power structures while maintaining cultural and religious identities under majority rule. His publications reveal a consistent focus on challenging simplistic narratives about religious conflict in medieval Mediterranean societies. Rather than portraying these societies as defined primarily by religious division, his work emphasizes the practical accommodations, economic interdependencies, and complex identities that characterized daily life across religious boundaries. His research demonstrates how religious identity often functioned alongside other social markers like language, profession, and regional affiliation. Catlos has received numerous prestigious awards including the Medieval Academy of America's Charles Homer Haskins Medal (2018), the Middle East Studies Association's Albert Hourani Book Prize (2014), and a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship. His books have been translated into numerous languages including Spanish, German, Polish, Korean, Russian, and Chinese. 2024 Guggenheim Fellow Medieval Academy of America's Charles Homer Haskins Medal (2018) Middle East Studies Association's Albert Hourani Book Prize (2014) American Historical Association's James A. Rawley Prize American Historical Association's Premio del Rey Boulder Faculty Association Award for Excellence in Research (2015) As an educator, Catlos mentors MA students interested in Mediterranean Studies and Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations, with recent students securing fully-funded PhD positions at Princeton, Brown, and Rochester. He has received multiple teaching and leadership awards from the Boulder Faculty Association. His current research includes 'An Age of Convergence: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean' and 'James the Conqueror: A Crusader King in an Age of Faith and Reason.'

• Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations
• Medieval Mediterranean history
• Ethno-religious minorities
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Zhiqing Zhou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He holds affiliations with the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative and the Johns Hopkins P.O.E. Total Worker Health® Center. His research examines organizational impacts on employee mental health, workplace mistreatment, work-nonwork balance, and health behaviors. Education: PhD, University of South Florida (2014) MA, University of South Florida (2012) BA, Peking University Health Science Center (2009) Research Interests: Dr. Zhou investigates how workplace practices influence employee well-being, focusing on: Workplace violence/bullying prevention Cross-domain spillover between work and family life Behavioral interventions for health/safety promotion Impact of illegitimate tasks and incivility on mental health Publication Trends: Recent articles (2021-2025) emphasize remote work challenges, cyber incivility, moral identity in organizations, and dyadic family-work dynamics, using longitudinal and diary methodologies. Awards: Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Office of Naval Research (2021, 2022) Academy of Management OB Division Best Reviewer Award (2015) SIOP LGBT Research Award (2012) Leadership: Associate Editor for Journal of Occupational Health Psychology , Group & Organization Management , and Stress & Health . Collaborates with global researchers and graduate students.

• Workplace Mental Health
• Workplace Mistreatment
• Work-Nonwork Interface
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Nicholas Paul is a Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University. His research focuses on medieval European history, particularly the Crusades, family memory, and cultural capital in medieval nobility. He has held a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant (2019-2020) at the University of Birmingham, UK, conducting research on medieval history. His work examines topics such as Angevin dynasty narratives, material religion in crusader contexts, and the intersection of medieval memory with modern public perception. He has authored or edited books including The French of Outremer (2018) and To Follow in their Footsteps (2012), and contributes to academic journals like Traditio and Journal of Medieval History . Key Research Areas: Crusader societies, medieval family memory, cultural history of nobility, historiography of the medieval Mediterranean Grants/Awards: Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant (2019-2020) Paul’s interdisciplinary approach bridges textual analysis, material culture, and memory studies. His current projects include exploring Angevin imperial contexts and the role of cultural capital in medieval warfare. He directs Fordham’s Center for Medieval Studies, fostering interdisciplinary medieval research and education.

• Medieval History
• Crusades and the Latin East
• Cultural History
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Arturas Rozenas is an Associate Professor of Politics at New York University's College of Arts & Science. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (Duke University, 2012), an M.S. in Statistical and Decision Sciences (Duke University, 2010), and a B.A. in Philosophy (Vilnius University, 2001). His research focuses on comparative politics and statistics, with emphasis on authoritarian regimes, electoral politics, and state repression. He investigates topics such as propaganda tactics, voter behavior in non-democratic systems, historical impacts of political violence, and media manipulation strategies in authoritarian contexts. His work spans case studies in Russia, Ukraine, and post-Soviet regions, analyzing how autocrats control information and maintain power. Recent studies include the effects of symbolic politics on national identity and the consequences of demographically targeted repression. Rozenas’ research also explores electoral fraud detection, post-election coups, and theoretical frameworks for modeling political dynamics. No awards are explicitly listed in the provided information. His advising and grants activities are not detailed here. He is affiliated with NYU’s Politics Department and maintains a personal homepage for research dissemination.

• Comparative Politics
• Statistics
• Electoral Politics
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Jacob N. Shapiro is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University and a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie Technology and International Affairs Program. His work focuses on conflict, security, and the information environment. Shapiro co-founded and directs the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, a multi-university consortium studying politically motivated violence. He also leads Princeton’s Accelerator initiative, building global research infrastructure to understand modern conflict and disinformation. His peer-reviewed articles and research papers explore influence operations, digital security, and the efficacy of countermeasures against disinformation. These works emphasize empirical methods and interdisciplinary collaboration. Scientific Awards: 2016 Karl Deutsch Award (International Studies Association) Shapiro has advised government agencies, NGOs, and technology companies on transparency, disinformation, and security. He earned a Ph.D. and M.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. from the University of Michigan, and served in the U.S. Navy.

• Conflict Studies
• Security Studies
• Political Science
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